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wander, by ftreams unknown, blue-eyed OinaWithin this bofom is a voice; it

mórul.

comes not to other ears: it bids Offian hear the hapless, in their hour of woe. Retire, foft finger by night; Ton- thormod fhall not mourn on his rock.

With morning I loofed the king. I gave the long-haired maid. Mal- orchol heard my words, in the midst of his ecchoing halls. "King of Fuärfed wild, why fhould Ton-thormod mourn? He is of the race of heroes, and a flame in war. Your fathers have been foes, but now their dim ghofts rejoice in death. They ftretch their arms of mift to the fame fhell in Loda. Forget their rage, ye warriors; it was the cloud of other years.

Such were the deeds of Offian, while yet his locks were young: tho' lovelinefs, with a robe of beams, clothed the daughter of many ifles. We call back, maid of Lutha, the

years that have rolled away!

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Fingal dispatches Offian and Tofcar, to raise a stone, on the banks of the stream of Crona, to perpetuate the memory of a victory, which he had obtained in that place. When they were employed in that work, Carul, a neighbouring chief, invited them to a feast.

They went and Tofcar fell desperately in love with Colna - dona, the daughter of Car - ul.

a-dona became no lefs enamoured of Tofcar.

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incident, at a hunting-party, brings their loves to 2 happy issue.

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- amon of troubled ftreams, dark wan

*derer of diftant vales, I behold thy

courfe, between trees, near Car - ul's ecchoing

halls.

*) Colna dona fignifies the love of heroes.

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amon, narrow river. Car-ul, dark eyed. Colamon, the refidence of Car-ul, was in the neighbourhood of Agricola's wall, towards the fouth. Car-ul seems to have been of the race of those Britons, who are diftinguished by the name of Maiate, by the writers of Rome. Maiate is derived from two Galic words, Moi, a plain, and AITICH, inhabitants; fo that the fignification of Maiate is, the inhabitants of the plain country; a name given to the Britons, who were fettled in the Lowlands, in contradiftinction to the Caledonians, (i. e. CAEL - DON, the

Gauls

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