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~ in the Scottijh IJles. 303
leafl: indecent to betray their want of fortitude in
public *.
If there were any charaderiflical diverfities in
genius, Manners, and cuftoms, of the Wanders,
v/hen compared to their neighbours on the conti-
nent, they mull have borrowed them from the
Norwegians, who had been long their fuperiors,
and who of confequence mull have introduced
their own tafte, falhions, and laws, among them.
Hence we may account for that difpgfition and at-
tachment which the inhabitants of the Ebudes dif-
covered to piracy and poetry, in a fuperior de-
gree to any other tribe of the Albanian Scots.
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* Fasminis lugere honeftum eft, viris merainiffe. Taciius de
mor. Germ.
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