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

THE BRITONS ASS EB. TED. 75
The names of Gael and Cimbri were not appropri.ired,
as our author has appropriated them
from the beginning. The former was not thedif-
tinguifhing appellation of tnc Caledonians from
the Cimbri and Belgie. And the latter was not
the didinguifliing appellation of the Welfli and
Brigantes from the Belga? and Gael. Mr. Mac-
pherfon's Belgie were denominated Cimbri, and
Mr. Macpherfon's Belga? and Cimbri were deno-
minated Gael.
I have previoufly fliewn the name of C}'mri to
have been the great hereditary diflinftion of the
Gauls upon the continent, and to have been car-
ried with them into all their conquells. There
I have (hewn it to have been retained, equally
as the general tide of all their tribes, and the
particular defignation of fome. And it was not
retained in our own ifland, as Mr. Macpherfon
fuppofes, merely by the natives of Wales and
the Britons of Brigantia. It was equally the
name of a nation in the South-Weil of Somerfet-
(hire and the North-Eaft of Cornwall. In hoc
brachio, quze [quodj interrailTione Uxellce amnis
Heduorum region! protenditur, fita eft regio
Cimbrorum '. And it appears plainly, not to
have been continued as a particu'ar appellation
from the beginning, but to have been taken up
at different periods by different tribes, even in
fuperfedence of their own previous appellations,
* Richard, p. 20. and Hillor}- of Manchelter, p. 61.
when