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copies from the same original. The Committee, Appendix, No. xx. 

 p. 313, has given us a poem on the death of Ossian, from Kennedy's 

 collection, as a sample of the superiority of the Scotch copies. We 

 give the first sixteen lines of that poem, exactly as they are printed in 

 in the Report, and leave to the Gaelic scholar to pronounce on their 

 purity. , 



" Stiamhaidh bhi noc ann gleann-caothan. 

 Gun ghuth gadhair ann, gun cheol. 



Mo chroidhe cho dean e do mreir, 



- . . . • ■ ■ '> 



*Smi fein an sean f hear gun treoir. 

 'Nuair reachamaid do ghleann-caothann, 



Bu bhinn bladhar againn ceol, ''^'^d brfM-^Jaii. foirlo ob?/ 



..^, . B'iomad dea' fheardhinn air chint, 

 'Scho toileamaid diomb da'r deoin. 

 'Nuair thogamaid ri gleann-caothonn, 

 Bu lionmhor fadhaid gach iul, '"^ ^°? 



A cosgairt an daimh's 'san f heidh ; ' 



'Siomad ceud nach eireadh dhiu, 

 B'iomad laoch adh' eighte mach, 

 A dhireadh gu bras an Sliabh ; 



Le shleagh, 'si ruisgte na dhornn it u.;: •:.->.. 



Le cloidheamh mor, agus sgiath." nc: .' 



tf.! nh biifih -oifiitn .lijoiito oju tiihd-i £8l]j)iib lic >£l ?i 



Lest the foregoing should not be sufficient to shew the difference 

 between the Scotch and Irish copies of the same poems, we insert 

 some stanzas, extracts from the " Urnigh Ossian," as given by the 

 Committee in the Appendix to the Report, p. 118, and corresponding 

 stanzas from a manuscript Irish poem called " Agallamh Oisin agus 

 Phadruig." The Irish poem commences with Patrick calling on 

 Ossian to arise from sleep, and listen to the psalm ; but this natural 

 opening of the poem is transferred to the eighth stanza in the Scotch 

 «opy. 



