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TO THE
HIGHLAND SOCIETY
OF
SCO T LAN D.
REPORT, ^r.
JIn execution of the bufinefs affigned it, your Com*
mittee conceived it to be foreign to its duty to enter
into any elaborate argument or difcuflion on the au-
thenticity of thofe poems, or to examine, with cri-
tical or hiftorical labour, the opinions of different
writers who have made this matter a fubject of con-
troverfy. It conceived the purpofe of its nomination
to be, to employ the influence of the Society, and
the extenfive communication which it poflefTes with
every part of the Highlands, in colleding what ma-
terials or information it was flill practicable to col-
lecl, regarding the authenticity and nature of the
poems afcribcd to Oflian, and particularly of that
celebrated colledion publiihed by Mr James Mac-
pherfon.
A For

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Report of the Committee of the Highland Society of Scotland, appointed to inquire into the nature and authenticity of the poems of Ossian
DescriptionDrawn up, according to the directions of the Committee, by Henry Mackenzie ... ; with a copious appendix, containing some of the principal documents on which the report is founded.
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