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

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Boetius remarks, that the more pure and
genuine reading is found in an old copy
of Tacitus. Ampla chit as trans Badofriam
fita : this is the hteral Gaehc, free from
corruption, Bad-ottir\ and very probably Ca-
melodunum on the South of the Forth was
the city alluded to, for the Romans had not
then crofied over the river Forth, or Poull.
Therefore Stillingfleet calls Clyde the Otter,
which is more probable, becaufe there is a
ferry-boat by Dunbarton called Otter Ferry
or Bad Otter, over which Agricola with
his Romans paffed, after he had drawn off
his army from the coaft of Air, where they
were drawn up as if to terrify the people of
Ireland with an invafion, or rather the little
' Ifle of Arran or Ilia, (for it is impoffible as a-
hove he would mean to frighten the inhabi-
tants of the prefent Ireland, anifland at a dif-
tance of more than 20 miles from the nearefl
part of Scotland, from whence the eye could
not fee a man nor an army) : and by this
ferry-boat there ftands a hill called Z)/v;/~0///r
a little way from the caftle of Dunbarton.
There is another Bad-Ott'ir about three miles
from