238 



Powerfully, bravely. 

 Nimbly, boldly. 

 Fiercely, mightily, &c.' 



B. 



Briskly, sprightfully. 

 Efficaciously, victoriously, &c. 



c. 



Stoutly, courageously. 

 Valiantly, bravely^ &c. 



D. 



Undauntedly, firmly. 

 Furiously, well-enduringly, &c. 



The above, we believe, may be taken as a sufficient sample of this 

 precious poem, and an ample proof of the great fidelity with which 

 the Scottish bards handed down the works of their predecessors, even 

 from the times of " the sweet-voiced Ossian," and his illustrious 

 father '* the mighty Fingal, the powerful king of Morven," in the 

 third century of the Christian era, to the year 1800, when Hugh 

 Mac Donald, an illiterate Highlander, delivered a learned discourse 

 on the poems of Ossian, in his own native Gaelic, which, for the 

 benefit of posterity, has been translated into English, and published 

 in the Report of the Highland Society of Scotland, to convince the 

 world that Macpherson's Ossian is a translation of the poems of an 

 ancient Highland bard ; the originals of which were soon to be pub- 

 lished by the Highland Society of London. 



The Committee (Report, p. 15,) " presumes it may assume, as 

 undisputed, that a traditional history of a great hero, called Fion, 



