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

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marks of their prudence, caution, and loud
boafting : ^tqui il!i modo cauii^ ap fapientesy
prompti pojl eventum^ ac magmloqu't erant
Thus it Teems they were far from being di-
fpirited by their late misfortune.
The only difficulty is, to find out the pro-
per place where this engagement happened,
Boetius, who follows and agrees with Camb-
den, draws a wall between the Efk to the
mouth of the river Tweed, which, fays he,
Tacitus calls it Tatim 'Mfttiarium. But Sir
James Dalrymple affirms, that the learned
Cambden has been miftaken, when he fays
that Tweed was the fame river which Tacitus
called T'aiis^ fmce it is plain from Tacitus his
account that Taus w^as near the Grampian
hills in Perthfhire, whither the Romans,
after they had beat the enemy, carried their
arms through the country of Perthfhire and
Angus, and ordered the fleet to fail about
the ifie. Sir George MacKenzie is alfo of
this lafl opinion.
It is however no unpardonable crime to
differ in fentiments with thefe two learned
baronets ; efpecially when we fmd the firfl
engagement with the Romans, the fixth
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