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

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miny and difappointment flare him, at
once, in the face. His impudent aflertlons
are difproved, and his darh'ng purpofe de-
feated. He muft therefore be doubly
ftung, if he is capable of fhame from
falfehood, or of chagrin for the failure of
his proje(^.
But this forgery of our traveller, in avert-
ing that the Bards were fo very illiterate,
feems the more extraordinary, as he ac-
knowledges, that there were regular fchools
or colleges in Shj and other places, for
the education of pipers. His admitting
this fad gives additional flrength to what
has been advanced concerning the acade-
mies of the Bards ; as it is not very likely,
that a people, who were fo attentive to an
inferior art, fhould neglect the cultivation
of genius, for a more important profellion.
It muft be confefled, however, that the
fchools of the Bards began to be confider-
ably