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POEMS OF OS SI AN. !W!
Literal Tranflation.
Inniftore rofe flowly,
And Carrickthura, chief of waves
Macpherfon's Tranflation.
« Inniftore rofe to fight, and Carrickthura's moffy towers/
In the original there is no rising to sight, no mossy
towers ; but the picture, vivid to the imagination, is
fimple in the expreffion : « Inniftore rofe slowly,'
with that flownefs with which a diftant object rifes
to the fight — and ' Carrickthura, chief of waves ;'
expreffing the fituation of the place in a command-
ing point of view, above the fea.
* Bha comhara beud gu h-ard
Teine dall 's a thaobh fan fmùid.'
« The fignal of evil (or violence) was on high,
A blind fire, with its fide in fmoke.'
' But the fign of diftrefs was on their top ; the warning
flame edged with fmoke.'
I 2 Having
* i, e. Rifing majeflically above the fea. Iuil t in the Weft
Highlands, is ufed to exprefs a land-mark.

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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.
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DescriptionSelected books from the Ossian Collection of 327 volumes, originally assembled by J. Norman Methven of Perth. Different editions and translations of James MacPherson's epic poem 'Ossian', some with a map of the 'Kingdom of Connor'. Also secondary material relating to Ossianic poetry and the Ossian controversy.
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