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a waste of time to point out the errors of the five lines now cited. I 

 shall, however, refer to one word, as there can be no doubt that it 

 was used for the sake of rendering it ancillary to his plan of making 

 Ossian a Scotchman. The word Alha, not Albin, is the Irish name 

 for Scotland. It is always so written in the nominative, accusative, 

 and vocative cases. In the genitive it makes Alban, and in the 

 dative it is Albain, but in no case it is ever written Albin. This is 

 so well known to every Gaelic scholar, that it is unnecessary to quote 

 authority ; we shall, however, give two or three examples from HigK- 

 landers who have written in Gaelic. In the short catechism, pub'< 

 lished in Gaelic, by the Synod of Argyle, and printed in Glasgow, 

 by Andrew Anderson, in the year 1659, we find in the title page 

 these words, Arcl-seanadh Eagluis na Ha-lbann. — " The high 

 synod of the Church of Scotland." In an account of a poem written 

 by Eoin Mac-Ghilleoin, addresed to the learned Edward Lhuyd, and 

 printed in his Archseolegia Brittannica, foho, Oxford, 1707, we find 

 the follow ing words : " aon doileannuibh Inse Gall a Nalbuinn," — 

 " one of the islands of Inch-Gall (the western islands) in Scotland." 

 In another of the poems addressed to Mr. Lhuyd, and written by 

 Robert Campbell, we find this line, " A'ngcriochvibh aoibhin na 

 Halban," — "In the delightful country of Scotland." In the title 

 page of the New Testament, translated into Irish by Doctor William 

 O'Donnell, and turned from the Irish into the Roman letter, for the 

 use of the Highlands, by R, Kirke, a Highland clergyman, printed 

 in London, 1690, we find the following : " ar mhaithe choitchinn 

 Ghaoidhilteacht.Albann," — "for the common benefit of the Gaelr 

 tacht (those who speak Gaelic) of Scotland ;" and, lastly, in the title 

 page of the Gaelic Bible, printed for the British and foreign Bible 

 Society, in London, 1807, we find " air feadh Gaeltachd agus 

 Wleana na fi-Alba," — <' through the Highlands and islands of Scot- 



