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

THE BRITONS ASSERTED, 289
'* quarlans in war '," is now finally determined
in favour and disfavour of both. The Irifli^ and
their auxiliaries of England, Lloyd, Stilling-
fleet, Innes, Carte, and others, who aflerted the
Cantabrian or Scandinavian defcent of the Scots
and llich of the Scotch as, in equal oppofition to
both, ilrenuoufly maintained a Caledonian origin
for their anceftors ; thefe were all equally and
partially miftaken.—They who afferted the Cantabrian
or Scandinavian origin of the Scots, and
w-ere therefore wrong, affirmed likewife their im-
mediate deduction from Ireland into Caledonia,
and were therefore right. And they who denied
the Cantabrian or Scandinavian defcent of the
Scots, and were therefore right, denied likewife
their immediate derivation from Ireland, and
were therefore wrong. The Scots now appear to
have been originally Britons of the South, who
migrated from the weftern fhore of Britain into
Ireland, and afterwards palTed from Ireland into
Caledonia.—And they who affirmed, and they
who denied, the Caledonian extraction of the
Irifli Scots, affirmed and denied what was equally
true and equally falfe. As the name of Scot was
communicated from the South-Britons in the
center of Ireland to all the tribes upon the coaff,
it comprized the Caledonian nations of the
Robogdii, the Venicnii, and the Hardinli. And
* Hiitory of Manchefler, p. 430.
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