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with four strong shoes, with hoofs, tinder-Hke, dashing fire through 

 the restraint of the bridle. The second horse of them was slender- 

 legged, light-headed, close-haired, swift-moving, stately, gentle, 

 slender-tailed, curly-maned, long-headed, with ears pure white." We 

 forbear to give the description of the chariot, or the names of the 

 horses, being of opinion that the mention of the fact and the descrip- 

 tion of the horses are quite sufficient to detect the plagiarism. It can 

 be positively affirmed, without a fear of contradiction, that the lan- 

 guage of the Irish story proclaims its antiquity. Not so the language 

 of the original Gaelic, as given by the Highland Society, which 

 requires but a very slight scrutiny to discover its modern manufac- 

 ture. ' 

 The second example, in the episode of Borbar and Faineasolis, is 

 borrowed, or stolen from the Irish poem called " Laoidh Mhoighre 

 borh." Mr. Macpherson, or rather his Son Ossian, has christened 

 the lady under a name very uncommon in the Gaelic language ; in 

 this he thought, perhaps, he might do an act of kindness, as the old 

 poem has given her no name, except that she was the daughter of a 

 " Righ fo thuinn" (Ree fo huinn,) literally, a " king under the 

 waves," of a nation generally supposed to be the same as the present 

 Netherlands. Ossian says she was " the daughter of Craca's king," 

 but we believe that the name of such an island, as Craca, was never 

 heard of before the days of the Scotch Ossian. The poem from 

 which the episode is stolen is common in Ireland, and has been 

 translated by Miss Brooke, and, with the original, published in hef 

 Collection of Irish Poems. It was also common in Scotland, and a 

 copy of it has been published in Gillies* Collection of Gaelic Poems, 

 in which we find that the father of the lady was, as in the Irish 

 poem, a " Righfo thuinn" but we may look in vain for any thing 

 like the isle of Craca. It is worthy of observation, that even the 



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