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

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THE GENUINE HISTORY OF
" under the name of Cimbri, into the regions of
^' the South (Sexcentefimum & quadragefimura
'^* annum urbs noftra agebat cum Cimbrorura
*^' audita funt arma. Tacit. Germ. 37.)."
I have produced this extract, merely to point
put how unfriendly snd hoftile Mr. Macpherfon's
own quotations would be to his fyftejn, if they
•were not a little garbled by him. — Of the two
irruptions here alTerted, the authority addrxed
for the latter entirely precludes the former. The
paffage is crippled in the extrafi. In the origi-
nal it runs thus. Proximi Oceano Cimbri, par-
va nunc civitas, fed gloria ingens— . Sexcentefimum
& quadragefimum annum urbs noftra age-
bat, cum primhn Clmbrorum audita funt arma.
This therefore was the firft irruption of the
Cimbri into the South of Europe. And Mr.
Macpherfon's own quotation, when it is reftore4
to its original perfection, exprefsly declares it to
have been the firft.
T H E s E are all the parts of our author's
great argument, in favour of a German-Celtic
colony Itttling in the iOand. And every part,
we fee, afierts fome fafl that is not true, or de-
duces