fifteenth years, of his age ; that Carraig-Thura should properly be 

 spelt Carraig-Toiire ; that Carraig signifies a round. rock, uneven 

 and broken in the face of it, and ill to ascend to iheJop;. that Thura 

 or Toure, signifies a. house, castle, or palace ; that Selma 'is the name 

 of a place familiar to him, but he can not say where it was situ- 

 ated ; that he has heard poems in Gaelic addressed to the Sun, 

 Moon, Evening Star, andMalvina, but cannot recollect any, of them; 

 that he does not remember ever to have heard a poem, in which 

 Oscar, tlie son of Caruth, killed Dermod, the son of Morni ; that he 

 heard a Gaelic poem called the "Six Bards;" that there are three 

 Gaelic poems, in each of which a maid is said to come to the Fingal- 

 lians for protection, from great men or heroes ; that the names of 

 these heroes are mentioned in each poem, as Borbar, TJllin, and if 

 he remembers right. Mack Rie na Hiarsmaile. " All which is truth, 

 as he shall answer to God." .9,^^ .m.ai.jim ...m ! iV -■ o .-nvi* . (i... > 

 .^ , The above is the substance of Captain John Mac Donald's Affida- 

 vit, in all which, it is submitted, there is not one word that proves 

 the authenticity of Macpherson's Ossian, or of the Gaelic " Origi- 

 nals," as published by the Society. He merely swears that he heard 

 poems ascribed to Ossian,, and that when he was a boy he could 

 repeat one or two hundred of them, but now remembers only two, 

 and the description of Cuchullin's horses. These two> from the 

 description he gives of them, were doubtless the two Irish poems of 

 " Laoidh Thailc Mhic Threoin," and " Moighre Eorft/' the first of 

 which has been translated by the late Theophilus O'Flanagan, and 

 published in the "Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Dublin," 

 and the second translated by Miss Brooke, and published with the 

 original in her " Reliques of Irish Poetry." The description of the 

 horses were doubtless the same as those contained in the Irish tales 

 of "Tain^^o Ciiailgn^,'\-^QlJhe " Dearg ruathar Chonaill Chear- 



