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

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but the latter, as I fliall fhew hereafter, to the
refidence of his pofterity among the wilds and
woodlands of Gaul. Denominated Gael upon
the continent, the colonifts continued the appellation
in the ifland. And it furvives not, as Mr.
Macpherfon uniformly imagines, folely in that
name of Gael which the Irifh and Highlanders
reciprocally give themfelves. It furvives, a? I
have Ihewed before, in the name of Gathel,
which is equally pronounced Gael, and was once
equally the appellation of the Iriili, the High-
landers, and the Weifli. And it furvives alio
in the appellation of Welfli, the whole body of
the Provincials being repeatedly denominated
Bryt-Walas, Wilfc, or Welih, in the Saxon
Chronicle ; the Britons of Kenr, the Britons of
Suffex, and the Britons of Hamplhire, the Bri-
tons of Dorfetfliire, the Britons of Wiltfliire,
and the Britons of Bedfordfnire, the Britons of
Somerfetfliire, the Britons of Chefhire, and ;the
Britons of Clydifdale in Scotland, being all dif-
tin^lly particularized in the Chronicle as Wealas,
Walen, or Bryt-Wealas ; and the Britons of Gal-
loway, Wales, and Cornwall retaining the ap-
pellation at prefent '. Thcfe are fuch obvious
relicks
* See Hlilory of Manchefter, p. 437,— la p. i. of the/
Sax. Chron. the Britons are called Britilli or Wilfh, in p. 2.
the Britons that oppoled Cx-far's palTagc over the Thames are^
called Brytu'alits, in p. 7. all the Provincials to the South of
Severus's Wall are nanied Brytwalum, and in p. 11 and 12.
3 aaually