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

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THE GENUINE HISTORY 0,F
ether. But the union muft be dilTolved. The
name of Hibernia may perhaps be derived from
either one or the other. But it cannot be de-
duced from both.
Having thus anfwered the main fubftance of
the argument, let us collet fome of the fubor-
dinate miftakes in it.—The Caledonian Scots and
the Irifh are faid to have had a title to the Latin
name of Hiberni, from the coldnefs of their cli-
mate. But muft not the Caledonians themfelves,
as living in the very fame country with the for-
mer, have been equally entlded to the fame ap-
pellation ? —They are both faid to have had
a right to the Britifh name of Yverdhon, from
their wefterly fituation. But mufl not the other
Caledonians, the tribes that lived equally along
the weftern Ihore, inRofsand Strathnavern, have
had equally a right to the fame denomination ?
They are both faid to have been called Yverd-
hon, becaufe they vi^ere '* fituated to the Wefl:
** of fuch neighbours as had an immediate com-
*' munication with the Romans." But is this
true concerningT;he former ? If they refided in
Braidalbin, Cantyre, Knapdale, ',and Lorn, as
Mr. Macpherfon infmuates in p. 128, they lived
more to the North than Weil of all the Bri-
tons of weilern Valentia ; and if they were fettled
only in Argyle, Lorn, and Lochaber, which
fecms to be the real truth S they were certainly
* Bcdc fixes thera on the northern fide of the Clyde.
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