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

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guage Is fpoke, and ought, on that account,
to gain more credit than any man who
is a perfect Granger to it, however im-
pertinently preflimptuous j and Mr. P.'s
placing Sky among the 5 Ebudes ; an
Ifland 36 miles diilant from thefe Ifles,
which are known to be contiguous to one
another, may latisfy any difcerning reader,
how much he takes upon him above his
knowledge, or any good authority which
is fufficient to convince people of his grofs
miftake. And further, the author, from
his own knowledge, maintains, in diredt
Oppolition to Mr. P. that except the fmal-
ler iJleSf forts, hays and landing-places, there
are few, if any Gothic words ufed in com-
mon converfation, even among the vulgar,
who could not conceal, nor equivocate, if
any fuch were mixed v/ith their language ;
io that the Danes, though they reiided
long there, have made no alteration in their
language, or the names of mountains, rivers,
firaitbs, valleys, and rocks, with frefli and
fait water lakes and lochs, which alfo are
moftly Gaelic -, and this is aiTuredly the cafe
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