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63 THE GENUINE HISTORY OF<br />

concerning <strong>the</strong> position, manners,<br />

and transactions <strong>of</strong> mr. mac-<br />

pherson's three colonies in BRI-<br />

TAIN.<br />

PAG. 32. "^ When <strong>the</strong> Romans carried <strong>the</strong>ir<br />

'^^ arms into Britain, <strong>the</strong> whole ifland was<br />

" p<strong>of</strong>feffed by three nations fprung originally,<br />

'^ though at very different periods, from <strong>the</strong> Gael<br />

*' <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> continent."<br />

Let us examine this p<strong>of</strong>ition by <strong>the</strong> account <strong>of</strong><br />

him, who was <strong>the</strong> firfl Roman that carried his<br />

SLvrnz into Britain, and is <strong>the</strong> moil accurate dif-<br />

tinguifher <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> general divifions <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Britons</strong>.<br />

Britannia pars interior, he fays, ab iis incolitur,<br />

quos natos in infula ipsa fuemorld proditimt<br />

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