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XXVI PREFACE.
propriated without scruple to Macpherson's
Ossian.
Accordingly, in the vague attestations
transmitted to Blair, such passages only
are specified, as had been adopted by Mac-
pherson from the Irish ballads. The de-
scription of Cuthullin's chariot ; the episode
of Fainasolis ; Ossian's courtship of Eviral-
lin ; the teniis of peace proposed by Mor-
la ; Ullin's war-song ; the standard of Fin-
gal ; the choice of an adversary by each
chief, and the single combat between Fin-
gal and Swaran ; the battle of Lora ; Dar-
thula ; Lathmon ; the combat between Oscar
and Ullin in the Fragments; the death of Os-
car in Temora ; and the lamentations of the
spouse of Dargo'* ; are almost all the pas-
'^ Appendix to Mr Mackenzie's Report, pp. 1. 2^ 11.
12. 19. 20 22. 23. 24. 2y 30. 32. 33. These and the
pages cited in note 20. contain the only passages in
Ossian that are specified and attested by Blair's cor-
respondents; but I am sorry to observe, that their
letters have not been published entire. One corres-
pondent writes, " As to your queries, I cannot find
any manuscripts of Ossian's poems, nor did I ever see