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

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that the metropolis met with the deftrudioii
, already defcribed for their refinance, and
breach of promife, but the reft of the low-
er clafs, and fuch of the nobility as fubmit-
ted, were moft certainly taken under protec-
ticn.
Nay, as a proof of the falfenefs of fo im-
political and cruel an adlion as the total ex-
tirpation of a whole nation, Nenniu-s tells
us, that Kenneth Mac Alpin was called king
of the Pid:s, as were alfo his fuccelTors, as
quoted by Lynch in the Ulfter Annals. That
the Pid:s made a part of the king of Alba-
ny's army in Scotland, we have plain proofs
from Ethelwood in his Chronicle *. And
Ingulphus declares, that the Pids made a
part of Conftantine king of Albany's army
at the battle of Brunford, againft Adeljian
king of the Saxons. In the eleventh cen-
tury the FlBs are known by their own name^
they were alfo known by the name of Fi5is
in Galloway in the twelfth century, and
other parts of the country. From the let-
* A. D. 937.
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