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S4.<br />

THE GENUINE HISTORY O?<br />

<strong>the</strong> firfl: planters <strong>of</strong> Italy, <strong>the</strong> Umbri can never<br />

be allowed to have been orlghially a colony from<br />

Gaul. And <strong>Mr</strong>. Macpherfon muft ei<strong>the</strong>r deny<br />

<strong>the</strong> Umbri to have been <strong>the</strong> moll: antient people<br />

<strong>of</strong> Italy, or admit <strong>the</strong>m not to have been original-<br />

ly derived from Gaul.<br />

This reafoning is fufficient to counterbalanca<br />

<strong>the</strong> aflertions <strong>of</strong> fuch authors, as he has produc-<br />

ed in fupport <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> opinion. And <strong>the</strong> reafon-<br />

ing is happily confirmed by an hiftorian <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

moil: refpeftable characler, and with whom, in<br />

a comparative eftimate <strong>of</strong> au<strong>the</strong>nticity and<br />

knowledge, <strong>Mr</strong>, Macpherfon's writers are but<br />

mere flutterers in <strong>the</strong> regions <strong>of</strong> hiilory. Livy<br />

afferts <strong>the</strong> firft and earlieft migration <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Gauls<br />

to have been only in <strong>the</strong> reign <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> elder Tarquin,<br />

and about 600 years before Chrift. And<br />

he is uncommonly accurate and circumflantial in<br />

his account. Gallos— eos qui oppugnaverunt<br />

Ckifium non fuilTe qui primi Alpes tranfierinr,<br />

fatis conflat. Ducentis quippe annis antequani<br />

Clufium oppugnarent urbemque Romam cape-<br />

rent, in Italiam Galii tranfcenderunt.—De tranr<br />

fitu in Italiam Gallorum hcec accepimus. Prifco<br />

Tarquinio Romns regnante, — Bellovefo—in Ita-<br />

liam viani Dii dedeiunt, Tr<strong>of</strong>eftus ingentibus<br />

pedltum equitumque copiis, in Tricailinos venil,<br />

/ilpes inde oppoiits eranr, qnas inexfuperabiles<br />

vifas baud equidem miror, nulla dum via (quod<br />

ouiJ*?i^ coiitinens mcmorla ilt, nil] de Hercuie<br />

fabulis

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