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10"^ REPORT ON THE
Mir chonnik fen Carbre
Di chraa in tlye hantych
Gir chur treith a chind bir
Gir ba in cowwa cadna
Neir ympoo fen O/liir
Gin dranyth Re Errin
Gin dug beym gni deichill
Gir yeichin ay gairlyn
Bollis Art Mac Carbre
Er in darna bulli
Sawle a weith in ferr fin
Si winn reith umi.
Smi Farris Filli
Dar hwll gych innis '
Troyg' er efh ni Fennyth
Mi llceaii re innis.' *
Englifli Tranflation.
The Author of this is Fergus the Bard.
Tell us, Fergus,
Thou bard from Erin's heroes,
How it fared with our people
In the battle of Gavra of wounds.'
*' Not good, fon of Comhal,
Is my report from the battle of Gavra.
The beloved Ofcar will not furvive,
He who fubdued the mighty.
Nor will the feven fons of Caoilt,
A band terrible as an holt.
The
* Extradled from MS. p. 230-231.

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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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