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

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THE GENUINE HISTORY Of
Extorres inopia agrorum, profefti domo, per
afperrimam Illyiici oram, Prtoniam inde et Thra-
ciam, pugnando cum ferocilTimis gentibus, emenfi,
has terras cepemnt. But now manfuefafta eft
feritas \ What Mr. Macpherfon has given in
one place to the Native Gauls, and in another
to the German Celtce, relates only to the former,
we fee. And the inconfiitency in the applica-
tion is a remarkable inftance of inattention in
the author.
P. 10—12. " The German Celtce (Celtic five'
" Galli quos Cimbros vocant. Appian. in lllyr*
** IttttcU^ h Tu7^r,g to ysyi^j rj K///.€'f;^. Plutarch
" in Mario.) repalTed the Rhine,—acquired a
** jult title to the name of Cimbri, which fignifies
" a band of robbers (Kz/xSpyg 57rovojU,«j^«cr/ Tspi^uvot
" Tag Kvigag. Plutarch in Mario. A-yig-p/xo/ oyj.-g
" xai zcXccv/iJcg ci Kiu.'^f.oi., Strabo, lib. vii.)—
** and,—more than three centuries prior to the
" Chriftian jera,—extended their conquefts to—
"Great Britain. — And the Welfli retain, in
" their name, an undoubted mark of their Cim-
" brie extraftion."
And in p. 30 thus— " When fome of the
*' Cimbri appeared on the frontiers of Greece,
" others drove the ancient Gael from the Bclgic
' C. 12, 16, and 17.
" divlfion