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

THE BRITONS ASSERTED. 55
nominated Celtse, in the days of Ctsfar ^ And
the Gauls of Afia Minor were called Cimme-
rians, or Gomerites, in the days of Jofephus *.
Thus, when all the German Celtas were denomi-
nated Cimbri or Cambri, there was a nation of
Si-Cambri upon the banks of the Rhine, and a
tribe of Cimbri within the peninfula of Jut-
land 3. And the common appellation of all the
tribes of Britain, is ftill retained by the defcendants
of three of them in Wales. The Wellh
therefore preferve no mark of their extraftion
from the German Celts, in their prefent deno-
mination of Cymri. It is the fign only of their
original derivation from the Cimmerii of Gaul.
And Mr. Macpherfon's whole fcheme, of a Cira-
brie or Celto-Germanic eflablifhment in the
ifland, appears to be entirely hypothetical and
groundlefs.
P. 12— 13. " The firfl: irruption of the nations
'' of the Northern Germany happened, as we
*' have already obferved, more than three cen-
^* turies before the commencement of our prefent
** £era. About two ages after, the Celt« beyond
** the Rhine threw another fleece of adventurers,
P. 1. Clarke, Glafgow. * Ant. lib. i. c. 7.
f Hiftoiy of Manchcller, p. 427.
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** under