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THE BRITONS ASSERTED. 275<br />

appellation <strong>of</strong> Albanich. <strong>The</strong> Caledonians <strong>the</strong>re-<br />

fore, according to his own aflertions, mufl have<br />

been defcended from <strong>the</strong> Irifh. And <strong>the</strong> deri-<br />

vation <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Pifts from <strong>the</strong> fame origin, a doc-<br />

trine which He very juftly declares to be " as<br />

'' new as it is abfurd," appears to be right<br />

upon his own reafonings, and to rellilt necelfa-<br />

rily from his own principles.<br />

P. 148. " From <strong>the</strong> name <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> diflricl <strong>of</strong><br />

*^ lar-ghael, which, it has been always faid, was<br />

" <strong>the</strong> firil territory p<strong>of</strong>fefled by <strong>the</strong> Hiberno-<br />

*' Scottifli colony, <strong>the</strong>re arifes a very decifive ar-<br />

*' gument in favour <strong>of</strong> our fyflem. lar-ghael is<br />

** not <strong>the</strong> name <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> country, but <strong>of</strong> th<strong>of</strong>e who<br />

" inhabited it from <strong>the</strong> earliefl times. It fignifies<br />

*' ibe wejleni Gael in opp<strong>of</strong>ition to <strong>the</strong> eq/iern<br />

'' Gael, or <strong>the</strong> Picls, who poiTeiTed <strong>the</strong> (bore <strong>of</strong><br />

" <strong>the</strong> German Ocean. But what is conclufive<br />

** againft <strong>the</strong> Irifh fyllem is, that Caeldoch, <strong>of</strong><br />

'' <strong>the</strong> country <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Gael, which <strong>the</strong> Romans<br />

" f<strong>of</strong>cened into Caledonia, is <strong>the</strong> only name by<br />

" which che Highlanders diftinguifh that divifion<br />

" <strong>of</strong> Scotland which <strong>the</strong>y <strong>the</strong>mfelves pojDTefs.'*<br />

This is called <strong>the</strong> " fourth pro<strong>of</strong>" againfl <strong>the</strong><br />

Irifli extraction <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Scots. And it is actually<br />

<strong>the</strong> laft. Let us <strong>the</strong>refore examine it with par-<br />

T 2 ticul^r

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