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

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To this clear refutation of Mr. Macpherfon's
argument let me add two obfervations, in order to
coJIe, in diiierent
parts of his work, into one point of view.—
Hibernia is here without hefitation derived from
the Welfh Yverdhon, But in p. 56—57 we are
told, that it is more probable it was 7iot derived
from Yverdhon, and that we may conclude it
was derived from the Latin Hibernus.—And Mr.
Macpherfon here argues, that lerna, luverna,
and Hibernia among the antients, as derived from
the Britilh lar-in, Erin, or Yverdhon, raufl cer-
tainly mean the weflern Highlapds of Scotland;
when in p. 55 he l\iys exprefsly, that Ireland was
called lar-in by the Caledonians, and even " in
" contradil1in£i:ion"to the weflern Hior.e of Cale-
donia ; when in p. 56—57, 62, 63, 81, 94, 95,
and 106, he exprefsly quotes Csefar, Mela, Soli-
nus, and Tacitus, as applying Hibernia to Ire-
land ; and when in p. 56 he fpeciiies luverna,
lerna, Iris, Ovspyia, and Hibernia, as " various
" names by which the Greeks and Romans dif-
** tinguiihed " the ifle of Ireland.—So grofsly in-
attentive is Mr. Macpherfon even to his own ret^-
fonings before!
P. 131. "In the neighbouihood of Drumal-
*' bin, a ridge of hills which divided the Scottifli
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