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are different both from Macpherson's English and the Society's Gae- 

 hc. His fourth hne is almost the same as the Society's ninth: 



" Eirigh a righ na Teamhra ! 

 Chi mi loingeas mor, se labhram : 

 Lomlan nan cuan is e clannach, 

 Do loingeas mor nan allamhrach. 

 Ma se an Garbh mac Stairn ata ann. 

 On dhreag uamhai-a ro gharg, 

 Bheir e leis ar gheill thar muir. 

 Do aindeoin righ fear foinneamh." 



" 'S breugach thu an diu 's gach aon uair, 

 Se ta ann loingeas na mach 

 Is an Fhiann a teachd d'ar cobhair." 



The Society's originals, from the ninth to the seventeenth line 

 run thus : 



" Eirich a ChuchuUin, eiricli, 



Chi mi threun o thuaith ! 



Gradghluais a chinn-uidhe na feile : 

 'Smor Suaran, is lionmhor a shluagh ! " 

 " A Mhorain," thuirt an gormshuiliach treun, 



Bu lag thu fein, is chrith thu riamh ; 



'Na d' eagal is lionmhor namhaid ; 



Mhic Fhithil, 's e Fionnghal a th' ann, 



Ard churaidh nan ciar bheann." 



The Gaelic scholar may compare the extract from Doctor Smith 

 with his translation on the opposite pages in the Report, and Mac- 

 pherson's English in any edition of Ossian's poems with the Society's 

 originals, vol. ir. p. 4. The words of Doctor Smith's original are 

 not so like Macpherson's English as the Society's originals, but the 

 ideas are the same in both, and the language, and the structure of 

 the verse, though in both incorrect, have in the former, much more 

 appearance of genuine Gaelic composition than the latter. The for- 



