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THE BRITONS ASSERTED. 299<br />

and upon one which is gr<strong>of</strong>sly erroneous,<br />

and not even attempted to be proved, That<br />

Ciraber fignified, not a native, but a Ger-<br />

man, Gaul : as <strong>the</strong> Indian <strong>the</strong>ology founded <strong>the</strong><br />

world upon <strong>the</strong> back <strong>of</strong> an elephant, and planted<br />

<strong>the</strong> elephant itfelf— upon <strong>the</strong> back <strong>of</strong> a tortoife.<br />

And <strong>the</strong> only one <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> three colonies, that is<br />

proved to have been in <strong>the</strong> ifland, is <strong>the</strong> Belgic.<br />

Two thirds <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> author's hiftorical fyftem are<br />

left ungrounded by himfelf. And <strong>the</strong> third carries<br />

fuch a ftrong mixture <strong>of</strong> falftiood with it, by<br />

dividing <strong>the</strong> Cimbri, or German Celt«, from <strong>the</strong><br />

BelgcE, by confounding <strong>the</strong> original arrival <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

Belgje with <strong>the</strong> much later defcent <strong>of</strong> Divitiacus,<br />

and by making <strong>the</strong> Belgse to prefs <strong>the</strong> Cimbri<br />

beyond <strong>the</strong> Humber, and to urge <strong>the</strong> Gael into<br />

Ireland, that even this is in effecl unproved by<br />

<strong>Mr</strong>. Macpherfon ; and <strong>the</strong> certain truth is dreft<br />

up with fuch an accompaniment <strong>of</strong> falfliood, that<br />

we cannot admit it for real hiftory.<br />

This is a juH: and fair account <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> general<br />

(late <strong>of</strong> <strong>Mr</strong>. Macpherfon's work. And, thus<br />

defeftive as he is in <strong>the</strong> great outline <strong>of</strong> his In-<br />

trodu6lion, he has adually filled it up with figures<br />

that are all diflorted from <strong>the</strong>ir true proportion,<br />

and with objecls that ought never to have met<br />

in <strong>the</strong> fame piece. <strong>The</strong> arguments in general are<br />

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dark.

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