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

THE BRITONS ASSERTED, 2^7
** Scots of Britain lived in a cold diinate— : the
*^ Irifli hy under the fame difadvantages of un-
^^ fiiendly feafons.-—The hiftorians and poets of
" the Empire, and the Geographers of Greece
" and Rome, exaggerated — the feverity of the
** climate under which both the Scottifli nations
" livedi From an exa6l conformity o^— climate,
" the Scots of both the ifles had a — title to the
** appellation of Hiberni." This is a plain de-
duftion of the name of Hiberni a from the Latin
Hiberniis. And this derivation is embraced in
p. 56—57,
is rejecfed in p. 130, and is embraced
again in p. 13 3* But it is here embraced along
with the other. '' The Scots of Britain lived in
" a cold climate : ihcw country was fttttated to the
'* Weji of fuch neighbours as had an immediate
" communication with the Romans. The Irifli
*' lay under the fame difadvantages of unfriendly
•' feafons, and their ijland vjasfmilarlyfititaied.
*' —Front an exaft conformity o{ fituafion and
•' climate^ the Scots of both the ifles had a much
*' better title to the appellation of Hiberni, than
** Italy, Spain, and a confiderable part of Africa,
" had to the name of Hefperia [or the Weft:].'*
This is a plain deduction of the name from the
Britifh Yvcrdhon. That derivation is embraced
in p. 130, is rejefted in p. 56—57, and is here
embraced again. And thus both, having been
alternately embraced and rejeflcd, reje^ied and
embraced, are at laft united in friendfnlp to-
S g.nher.