The genuine history of the Britons asserted against Mr. Macpherson ...

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THE GENUINE HISTORY OF
fa}^s thus of it : ho-i S= xccl ocKkai -rs-cp/ tjjv Bpsi^avr/jf/
v7,a-ot [jiiKpai' [xsPckX'/} S'/j Ispv/j 'Z5"p@)-» apTijcv 'zc-ocpccQ^Kyj-
fMSVYjf 'uxpo^ypiYi^ [ju)i7\.Kov ^i ixrT^^ syjio-u ' . Mela, the
firfi: who notices luverna, fays thus : Supra Bri-
tanniam luverna eft, pene par fpario, fed utrinque
a^quali tra£lu littorum oblonga ^ And Ccefar, the
firft who mentions Hibernia, fays thus : alterum
[latus Britannicc] vcrgit ad—occidcntem folem,
qua ex parte eft Hibernia, dimidio minor, ut exifti-
matur, quam Britannia ; fed pari fpatio tranfmiffus
atque ex Gallia eft in Britanniam ; in hoc media
curfu eft infula quce appellatur Mona ?. And
thefe defcriptions will not agree at all with the
weftern Highlands of Scotland. They are not
above 4^ or to the Weft of, Britain, but arc
' Strabo, p. 307.— I quote not Orpheus, becaufe the work.
attributed to him, or to Orpheus of Crotona (fee Ufher,
p. 378), is alhtrcdly ipurious. And I even quote not Ariftotle's
treatii'e Do Mundo, though it is quoted as his by Mr.
Carte (p. 4. V. I.)» ;md as his, or Theophraftus's, or fome
peribn's cotemporary with both, by Ufher (p. 378) ; for
the lame reafon that I appealed not to it before, to prove
the name of Briton prior to Mr. Macpherfbn's Cimbri ; be-
caufe I confiJer it as the work of a later period.
" L. ili. c. 0. ' P. 89.
* So the weflern fide of Ptoman Britain was called Bri-
tannia Superior or Higher Britain, and the eaftern Britannia
Inferior or Lower Britain (H^iftory of Manchefter, p. 59),
—And, as to Strabo's •w^oj A^^xlof, all the weftern fide of Bri-
tain from Galloway to the Orkneys is filled the northern fide
«f it by Ptolemy.
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