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

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Andrew, blfliop of Rofs, fpeaks of a hif-
tory wrote by a cotemporary writer, under
the title of Chronkus Antiquorum hi Gejiis
& A?tnalibus Aniiquis Scotorum Brittoftum,
This is flill extant, and he mentions alfo
the annals of the Pidts and Scots, and thefe
of fo long a date, that they were cfteemed
old then^ that is ancient, by an author who
died before the year 1 185. * ,
Nay, St. Gildas was born in Scotland, at
Dumbarton, and Gaelic was his mother
tongue. Cumineus, and Adamanus, both
abbots of lona, wrote, befides the Hiftory
of St. Columbus, other Hiftorical Treatifes ;
and we know that thefe flourifhed 11 00
years ago, and they \^^rote in Gaelic, f
The above will be too much for Mr. Pin-
kerton to bear with patience ; but there is
no help for it. We fhall hear a little more
of his own account, no lefs difagreeable to
the ear of the fenfible reader, than Innes's
jremarks in favour of the Gaelic, are to him-
felf.
' The Celts being natural favages, and
regarded as fuch by all writers of all ages,
* Innes's Critical Effay, &c. f Ibid.
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