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inter nostrates." I have already had occasion to accuse Sir John 

 Sinclair of want of candour, and I must here repeat the accusation. 

 In fairness he should have given an extract from that part of Colgan's 

 work to which the note refers, and which he affects to think contains a 

 proof that Colgan believed Finn to be a Scotchman. If he had done 

 so the reader would then see that Colgan held no such opinion. But 

 that would not answer the design of Sir John, who, knowing the 

 great reputation of Colgan as a profound scholar and celebrated his- 

 torian, thought that if he could make his readers believe that that 

 erudite Avriter considered Finn Mac Cubhail (Mac Coole) a Scotch- 

 man, it would follow that Ossian, Oscar, Gaul, Cuchulhn, Ca-olt, 

 and all those heroes who flourish in the poems of Ossian, must be 

 acknowledged Scotchmen also. Sir John, however, knew very well 

 that if he gave the precise words of either the text or the note of 

 Colgan, it would appear that that learned antiquary never thought of 

 making Finn a Scotchman. The Scotch baronet, therefore, not only 

 suppressed the words of Colgan, but by referring his readers to a 

 Life of Saint Patrick, in that author's work, where the matter is not 

 treated of, and concealing even the page where the note is to be 

 found, he, as much as in him lay, protected himself from detection, 

 well knowing that but few readers would take the trouble of reading 

 over a large Latin book, containing 740 folio pages closely printed 

 on small types, merely for the purpose of discovering whether Colgan 

 made Finn Mac Cubhail a Scotchman or an Irishman. Sir John, by 

 a note on the passsge in his work, above quoted, refers his reader to a 

 life of Saint Patrick, published by Colgan, in a work " entitled Jo. 

 Colgani Triades Thaumaturgae, Louvaniae, 1647." But in none of the 

 Lives of Saint Patrick, published by Colgan, has that learned man 

 given any such note ; it may, however, be seen among the notes to the 

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