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TO THE
HIGHLAND SOCIETY
OF
SCOTLAND.
REPORT, ®c.
JIn execution of the bufinefs afligned it, your Com-
mittee conceived it to be foreign to its duty to enter
into any elaborate argument or difcuffion on the au-
thenticity of thofe poems, or to examine, with cri-
tical or historical labour, the opinions of different
writers who have made this matter a fubject of con-
troverfy. It conceived the purpofe of its nomination
to be, to employ the influence of the Society, and
the extenfive communication which it pofiefles with
every part of the Highlands, in collecting what ma-
terials or information it was ftlll practicable to col-
lect, regarding the authenticity and nature of the
poems afcribed to Oflian, and particularly of that
celebrated collection published by Mr James Mac-
pherfon.
A For

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Report of the Committee of the Highland Society of Scotland, appointed to inquire into the nature and authenticity of the poems of Ossian
DescriptionDrawn up, according to the directions of the Committee, by Henry Mackenzie ... ; with a copious appendix, containing some of the principal documents on which the report is founded.
ShelfmarkOss.226
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Form / genre: Written and printed matter > Books
Dates / events: 1805 [Date published]
Places: Europe > United Kingdom > Scotland > Edinburgh > Edinburgh (inhabited place) [Place published]
Subject / content: Celtic (culture)
Epics
Literary criticism
Authenticity
Person / organisation: Archibald Constable & Co. [Publisher]
MacPherson, James, 1736-1796 [Subject of text]
Ossian, active 3rd century [Subject of text]
Mackenzie, Henry, 1745-1831 [Author]
Highland Society of Scotland [Sponsor]

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Early Gaelic Book Collections
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