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

82 THE GENUINE HISTORY OF
yet the Cimbii, who came over from Gaul fomc
ages afterward, arc rcprefented as arriving here
*' in a rude barbarity %" and " in all their ori-
^' ginal barbarifm." The Gael are brought
into Britain, before the arts had made any confi'
durable progrefs in Gaul, and confequently after
they had made fome ; as alfo in p. 34 the Gauls
appear to have arrived at " Ibme degree of
'' civilization," before the Gael left them : and
yet the Cimbri, who left the continent three
ag.^s aficrvvards, when the arts of civil life mud
have been confiderably advanced, bring with
them a rude barbarity of manners. The Cimbri
are here wafted into the ifland in all their ori-
ginal barbarifm : and yet, before the Cimbri
canre over, w^c find tliat '' th.e domeuic improve-
" ments" in Gaul *' had arrived at fom.e degree
*' of maturity -." In p. 24 the Gauls appear
to have arrived at " forae degree of civilization,"-
and in p. 8 agriculture in particular appears to
have beeii " profecuted with vigour and iliccefs,"
before the Gael left the country : and yet the
Gael are here k;id to have retained the rude
fimplicity of their arcellors ; and in p. 47 the
Gael, and in p. 33 even the more foutherly
Cimbri, are borh reprefented as totally ignorant of
agriculture.—But let us not fcrutinize too nicely.
I have repeatedly flicwn the exigence of thcfe
three colonies, in the iiland, to be all the creation o£
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