Ossian Collection > Prospectus of a work to be intitled The lives of the Caledonian bards

5. It will difcover to the prefent race of men,
in fome parts of Britain at leaft, the fituation
in which their fathers floo4.
6. It will fave the curious and fpeculative,
the toil of examining the records of Monkifh
ages, and colledl in one point of view, all that
thefe afford upon this fubjedl as interefling and
ufeful to us.
7. It will endeavour to afcertain the leading
chara6leriftics of the provincial diale(5ls, and
the true pronunciation, of the Gaelic Lan-
guage.
8. It may be of fervice to the Philologift, in
tracing the meaning and etymology of other
European languages, which hold fome affinity
with the Gaelic.
9. It may preferve that language from ruin,
by diffuling a tafle for its beauties, and {hew-
ing its powers in every fpecies of compofition.
I o. It will offer a plan, fhewing how modern
terms might be incorporated into that ian-
iruage, and the language itfelf improved.
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