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

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THE GENUINE HISTORY OF
fibly felt into the ifland. And yet, by a flrange
unhappinefs, the alledged hS. does not carry the
imalleft appearance of a proof where it is firfl
mentioned, and carries only the appearance of
one where it is mentioned again. The four firft
quotations are not intended to authenticate the
faft at all. Two of them only affert the Gauls
to have been denominated Cimbri, and the
others only intimate the Cimbri of Germany to
have been actually robbers. But none of the
four, in the leaft, afferts the remigration of the
German Celtoe into Gaul at this period. And in
p. 30 the only authority for the faft is the
paffage from Ccefar, which runs thus in the ori-
ginal : Reperiebat plerofque Belgas effe ortos a
Germanis; Rhenumque antiquitus tranfduflos,
propter loci fertilitatem ibi confediffe -, Gallofque
qui ea loca incolerent expuliffe. But this is
no proof, any more than the quotations before,
that the German Celtce repaffed the Rhine at this
period under the name of Cimbri. It (hews not
the Belgae to have been German Ceitse at all.
It fhews not the Belgce to have been ever deno-
minated Ciinbri. And it lliews them not to have
repaired the Rhine either 300 or 270 years be-
fore Chrift. The Belg^ indeed crofled the Rhine
into Gaul many years before either of thefe pe-
riods, fmce they penetrated into Britain, as I
ihall prove hereafter, no lefs than 350 years
before Chrift. And they certainly were not
the