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4i8 F I N G A L. Book VL
530 The Troops on Board, he bid us quick unbind
The fpacious Sheets, and give them to the Wind
That pour'd from Inisfail. We ftraight obey'd,
And to the vvhiftling Blafts our Sails difplay'd ;
Then fat and fung, while the fwift tilting Ships
535 For hilly Morven plough'd the foamy Deeps.
N. B. TO the greateft Part of the Notes, no other Merit is
claimed, but ranging them in their prefent Order. Moft of the
critical are taken from Dr. Blair ^ Differtation upon the Poems
of OJJian. Thofe of Mr. Macpherfon on Fingal are all retained ;
and many more extracted from the other Poems, as well as from
his Introduftion to the Hiftory of Great Britain and Ireland.
Not a i&M^ have been colledled from the Rev. Dr. 'John Mac-
pherfon % Critical DifTertations on the Origin, Antiquities, &c.
of the ancient Caledonians ; and fome likewife from Lord Karnes
Sketches of the Hiftory of Man. As what has been borrowed
in this Manner, is not only fometimes interlarded with 'Addi-
tions of our own, but moreover frequently intermixed together ;
it would have required an uncommon Degree of Care and La-
bour in the Tranfcription, as well as afterwards in the Printing,
to have diftinguiflied properly what belonged to each. We
thought it therefore the fliorteft Way, to acquaint the Reader
in this Place, with the general Freedom taken with the Re-
marks of the above-mentioned Authors, whenever they fuited
our Purpofe.
FINIS.