Ossian Collection > Report of the Committee of the Highland Society of Scotland, appointed to inquire into the nature and authenticity of the poems of Ossian

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He ftruck Art the fon of Cairbar
With the fecond ltroke.
So fell that hero,
Graced with his royal crowrt.
I am Fergus the bard,
Who have traverfed many lands :
Alas ! that I furvive the heroes,
To relate the tale of woe !'
The Society will obferve, that the fecond of thofe
poems is the fame flory with that called by Mr
Macpherfon, in his tranflation, the Maid of Craca,
and the third is on the fubjeci of the battle of Ga-
vra, where Ofcar fell, an account of which makes
the opening of Temora in Macpherfon. The tone of
the firft is fad and folemn, and perfectly agrees with
the traditionary belief as to the fituation of Oman,
when he furvived all the heroes of his race. It is
fcarcely neceffary for the Committee to repeat, that
thefe, and all the other tranflations given in this
Report, are flrictly literal, and mufl therefore be
expected to convey to the mere Englifh reader a
very imperfect tranfeript only, either in point of
force or tendernefs, of the original.
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