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

*rHE BRITONS ASSERTED. a;9
to the North of them all. But if they lived iti
Strathcrn onlv, as Mr. Macpherfon intimates
that they did in p. 1 3 r and 1 33, then they were
certainly to the Eaft and North of the great
bodies both of the Caledonian and Pioman
Britons. Andj even if both had been placed
to the Weil, would this be a competent reafon
for appropriating the name of Yverdhon
to them ? Mud not all the Britons, from
the mouth of the Cliiyd to the French
channel, have been equally with either entitled
to the name of Yverdhon ? For were they not
all, at lead equally, fituated " to the Weft of
*' (uch neighbours as had an immediate commu-
*' nication with the Romans?" And does not
the name of Hibernia appear long before the
Romans had any fettlement in the ifland ? Mr.
Macpherfon in p. 56 acknowledges that it does,
affirming Csefar to be the firfl: that mentions the
name.—-The Caledonian and Irifh Scots are faid
to have had a title to the name of Hiberni,
** from an exaft conformity of genius^ language,
*' manners, and d?'efs" as Well as fituation and
climate. But muft not almoft all the other Bri-
tons, all that were in any of the northern and
mediterranean regions of the ifland, have been
equally entitled to the fame appellation; as tbey
w^re equally conformable iji all ?
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