Ossian Collection > Remarks on Dr. Samuel Johnson's Journey to the Hebrides

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the hiftory of Europe. This miracle of
knowledge did not know, or is willing to
forget, that, long before the period he
alludes to, we had an intercourfe of many
centuries with France ; a nation as polite^
at leaft, as England^ and, perhaps, full as
ready to do juftice to the charaders of their
neighbours.
Our firft league with France was in the
reign of Charlemagne, in 792, figned by
that monarch, and afterwards by our king
Achaius, at Inverlochoy. Charles the Great
was fo fond of ennobling France, not only
by arms but by arts, tHat he fent for
learned men from Scotland, fays Buchanan,
to read philofophy, in Greek and Latin, at
Paris. He himfelf had for his preceptor,
Johannes Scotus, or Albinus, a man emi-
nent for learning.
Many other Scots went over about that
time, to Inftrud the inhabitants about the
Rhine