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

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4iices fome reafoning that is not jufl:. The
whole therefore is one iyftem of Error. And the
.exiflence of a fecond colony in Britain, as diftinft
from the Gael of the firll and the Belgje of the
third, appears to be totally ungrounded. In all
the arguments but one, Mr. Macpherfon has
confounded the German with the Proper Celtce,
though the very fcope and purpofe of his
arguments necelTarily led him to diftinguilh
accurately between them. And in that he
has confounded the Cimbri v/ith the Belgep.
Having accompanied the German Celtce, or the
Cimbri, in all their imaginary expeditions a-
crofs the continent of Europe, we find them
at laft dwindled down into the Belgae, who had
peyer been mentioned before, and to whom
the preceding quotations, even as interpolated
and garbled by Mr. Macpherfon's own inadver-
tency and prejudice, have not the fmalleft refe-
rence. Having through various pages engaged
the Germans in incurfions which they never
made, and in ravages v/hich they never committed,
Mr. Macpherfon at lafl attributes them
10 a fmail body of the Germans, the Belgce,
whole only incurfion was from the German to
the GaUic fide ot the Rhine, and whofe only ravages
were confined to a corner of Gaul. And
the whole account, as the reader mufl already
have obferved, is fupported by a train of the
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