CONTENTS. 



Principal Subjects treated 'of in the Essay on Ossian's Poems. 



State of the Question, 



Examination of the Dissertations of Mr. Macpherson and Doctor 

 Blair prefixed to Ossian's Poems, 



Examination of the Internal Evidence furnished by the Poems of 

 their own Authenticity, 



Examination of the Evidences produced by the Committee of the 

 Highland Society of Scotland for the Authenticity of the Poems, 

 in which are introduced some comparisons between Scotch and 

 Irish Poems in the Gaelic language, 



Examination of the Arguments contained in Sir John Sinclair's 

 Dissertation on the Poems of Ossian, prefixed to the First 

 Volume of " The Poems of Ossian in the Original Gaelic," .... 



Observations on the Abbe Cesarotti's Dissertation on Ossian, 



Observations on the " Supplemental Observations on the Poems of 

 Ossian, by John M'Arthur, LL. D.," published in the Third 

 Volume of " The Poems of Ossian in the Original Gaelic," .... 



Examination of the " Internal Proofs " of the Authenticity of " The 

 Poems of Ossian in the Original Gaelic," with a comparison 

 between extracts from that work and some Ancient Irish Poems, 



Summary and Conclusion of this Essay, 



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