Ossian Collection > Defence of the Scots Highlanders, in general; and some learned characters, in particular

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courfe of education, and the additional
advantages he now poffeffes, of reading
the different opinions of fuch authors as
have touched on th^ high antiquities of
Britain, place it within his powder to elu-
cidate the fubjed in fuch a manner as
he flatters himfelf will not only do it juRice,
hut render it entertaining, if not edifying
to the reader.
He only regrets his ov/n inferiority to
the many able authors v^'ho have handled
the fubjed, though unfortunately their ig-
norance of the Celtic has difquaUfied them
from giving that fatisfadion which their
fuperior abilities would otherwife have
yielded to the Public, and the honourably
point of view in v/hich they would have
placed their country and its ancient lan-
guage throughout all Europe.
If the Author might indulge himfelf with
the hope that the following fpecimen of his
knowledge in the Gaelic language would
give any degree of fatisfadion to the judi-
cious reader, he afterwards would enlarge
more fully, by making a gloffary on many
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