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

INDEX. 3lt
IRELAND by the antients, 240—24^, and 247—249,
—Whence the IRISH were called SCOTS. 2 84—286.
ITALY.
—Not firfl inhab'tted from GAUL, 20.
— Thefirft fetdement of GAULS in it, when. :4~25.
—The UMBRI not derivatives from GAUL, 20— -24;
and yet oi the fame flock with the GAULS, 24— 25.
MACPHERSON.
^Dr.)—Author of Critical DilTertations, one of the two principal
writers that have lately endeavoured to invert the order of
Hiftory, by making the SCOTCH the aborigines of CALE-
DONIA, and the planters of IRELAND, 5—6 ; a general charaderof
his work, 6 ; his knowledge of the CELTIC confined,
86, 141— 142, 210, ike.
(Mr.)—Tranflator of OSSIAN, the other principal writer that
has endeavoured to invert all hiitory, in his Prefaces and Notes
to OSSIAN, and in his late INTRODUCTION, 5—6;
2^ gciieral charader of the TRANSLATION and INTRO-
DUCTION, 6—7 ; he plumes himfelf much on his knowledge
ot the CELTIC, but his acquaintance with it confined, 86,
J41— 142, and 210.
—Fir^ general argument in the INTRODUCTION refuted,
jl— 28; contradictions in it, 15— 16, 16— 17, 17— 18, 27,
nnd 27—28 ; mifquotation in it, 27 ; its miflake in CELTIC,
18—20.
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