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

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

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66 THE GENUINE HISTORY OF gument carries every conviftion with it. But as the proof of a third colony, as an evidence that the Belg« firfl fettled in Britain under their own name about a century only before Chrift, it is equally erroneous and trifling. CHAP.

THU THE BRITONS ASSERTED, CHAP. II. S far I have attended minutely to the motions of Mr. Macpherfon's Celtse on the tontinent. I have demonlliMted his account of them, I think, to be one groi's perverfion of the real hiilory. And I fliall now follow him into the ifland. Ey difproving the incidents and rea- fonings, from which he deduces the origin of three colonies in Britain, I have difproved the exlftence of them already. But 1 fliall ilill purfue him through all his reafonings and hS:s in the ifland, and endeavour to unravel the one and overthrow the other, with the fame refpeft to P/Ir. Macpherfon, and with the fame fidelity to truth. F 2 I. CQK-

THU<br />

THE BRITONS ASSERTED,<br />

CHAP. II.<br />

S far I have attended minutely to <strong>the</strong><br />

motions <strong>of</strong> <strong>Mr</strong>. Macpherfon's Celtse on <strong>the</strong><br />

tontinent. I have demonlliMted his account <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong>m, I think, to be one groi's perverfion <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

real hiilory. And I fliall now follow him into<br />

<strong>the</strong> ifland. Ey difproving <strong>the</strong> incidents and rea-<br />

fonings, from which he deduces <strong>the</strong> origin <strong>of</strong><br />

three colonies in Britain, I have difproved <strong>the</strong><br />

exlftence <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>m already. But 1 fliall ilill purfue<br />

him through all his reafonings and hS:s in <strong>the</strong><br />

ifland, and endeavour to unravel <strong>the</strong> one and<br />

overthrow <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r, with <strong>the</strong> fame refpeft to<br />

P/Ir. Macpherfon, and with <strong>the</strong> fame fidelity to<br />

truth.<br />

F 2 I. CQK-

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