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

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Here Is true bravery, and common to moft
of the highlanders, who value themfelves
lefs than their honour, a quaUty they are
well known to keep fight of, in the hour
of caufe, 5cc.
Much older than the above period we
hear of the bravery of the Scottifh nation.
TheEnglifli hiftorians record, that, after the
Scots had gained a vid:ory at Bannockburn,
over ten times their own number, being
only 30,000 ilrong, in the year 13 14, they
flruck fuch terror among the etiemies, that
Thomas Walfingham frankly owns how
the Englifh, or as Mr. Echard is pleafed to
tranllate him, the unhappy borderers be-
came fo difheartened, that a hundred of
them would Hy from three Scotch foldiers.
But in defiance to fafts and experience,
this common adverfary (as if under pay) has
worked his whole wrath againfi; the hardy
inhabitants of the mountains, without any
regard to rank, diftindtion, or merit; and
has laboured to cover them all over with
fuch an infamous garb, as his own malevo-
lence alone could manufadure, confequently
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