The Works of Ossian, the Son of Fingal, Volume 3J.Fr. Valade and sold by Theophilus Barrois, 1783 |
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... Caledonians , is as much as to fay , the Celts of the hill country . The Highlanders , to this day , call them- felves Caël , their language Caëlic , or Galic , and their country Caëldoch , which the Ro- mans foftened into Caledonia ...
... Caledonians , is as much as to fay , the Celts of the hill country . The Highlanders , to this day , call them- felves Caël , their language Caëlic , or Galic , and their country Caëldoch , which the Ro- mans foftened into Caledonia ...
Page xi
... Caledonians . This miftake is easily removed . The Caledonians in process of time , became naturally divided into two diftinct nations , as poffeffing parts of the country , intirely different in their nature and foil . The wefterm ...
... Caledonians . This miftake is easily removed . The Caledonians in process of time , became naturally divided into two diftinct nations , as poffeffing parts of the country , intirely different in their nature and foil . The wefterm ...
Page xii
... Caledonians , who poffeffed the eaft coaft of Scotland , as the divifion of the country was plain and fer- tile , applied themfelves to agriculture , and raifing of corn . It was from this , that the Galic name of the Picts proceeded ...
... Caledonians , who poffeffed the eaft coaft of Scotland , as the divifion of the country was plain and fer- tile , applied themfelves to agriculture , and raifing of corn . It was from this , that the Galic name of the Picts proceeded ...
Page xiii
... was , perhaps , given by the Romans to the Caledonians , who pof- feffed the east coaft of Scotland , from their painting their bodies . This circumftance made some imagine , that the Picts were of British A DISSERTATION . xiij.
... was , perhaps , given by the Romans to the Caledonians , who pof- feffed the east coaft of Scotland , from their painting their bodies . This circumftance made some imagine , that the Picts were of British A DISSERTATION . xiij.
Page xiv
... Caledonians , moft certainly , ac quired a confiderable knowledge in naviga- tion , by their living on a coaft interfected with many arms of the fea , and , in islands , divided , one from another , by wide and dangerous firths . It is ...
... Caledonians , moft certainly , ac quired a confiderable knowledge in naviga- tion , by their living on a coaft interfected with many arms of the fea , and , in islands , divided , one from another , by wide and dangerous firths . It is ...
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