J. F. Campbell Collection > Original collection of the poems of Ossian, Orrann, Ulin, and other bards, who flourished in the same age

PREFACE.
After the Editors devoted much of their time
ill compiling materials for an additional collec-
tion of Ossian's poems, and in comparing different
editions collected from oral recitation; having
also perused the controversy, ^vritteu by men of
highly respectable abilities, establishing the au-
thenticity of the poems of Ossian; also, upon the
other hand, considered what has been stated a-
gainst the auliienticity of these poems, by a few
M'hose abilities are well known in other matters,
though they have failed in this vain and frivolous
attempt. Having contemplated both sides of the
jjuestion, and weighed the balance with reason
and justice; the Editors consulted with some of
tlie first characters in the nation about the matter,
who, after serious consideration, have granted
xheir approbation for publishing the following
^Iiccts, and favoured the Editors, not only with