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276 THE GENUINE FIISTORY OF<br />

ticular attention. It Is defigned to leave <strong>the</strong><br />

whole liypo<strong>the</strong>iis with <strong>the</strong> ftrongeft impreflion<br />

on <strong>the</strong> mind. And it is accordingly proclaimed<br />

by its author to be " a very dccifivc argument in<br />

"' favour <strong>of</strong> his fyftem," and abfolutely *' conclu-<br />

*• five agalnft <strong>the</strong> Irifh."<br />

This is called <strong>the</strong> '< fourth pro<strong>of</strong>." But it<br />

obvioufly confifls <strong>of</strong> two diilinft and feparate<br />

pro<strong>of</strong>s. And as <strong>the</strong> firfl was unwarily broken<br />

into two, fo two arc combined toge<strong>the</strong>r in <strong>the</strong><br />

fourth.<br />

<strong>The</strong> former <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>m is called *^ a very dccifive<br />

" argument," and is mentioned equally as luch<br />

in p. 130. But it has no weight at all. For, as<br />

I have obfervcd before in anfwer to this very ar-<br />

gument, even if we allow <strong>Mr</strong>. Macpherlbn all<br />

bis premifes, his conclufion will be ftill unjuft.<br />

This is wonderful, but true. If we allow lar-<br />

gacl to be <strong>the</strong> name <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> original inhabitants<br />

<strong>of</strong> Argylc, and if we allow it to fignify <strong>the</strong> Scots<br />

as <strong>the</strong> wcfLcrn Gael, in opp<strong>of</strong>idon to <strong>the</strong> Pi

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