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n Ann am oige is bladhar mo chruth, |j „i {j.j^i^ii, 



u An la sin do imic linn 



Eimhir alain an fhuUt ghrinn !" 



This the Doctor has translated thus : 



" Blooming maid of the whitest hand ! 

 Though 1 be aged and forlorn to night, 



I was called a hero of strength ;1^; ui .Uil> A Oflj 



' ' ■ When youth blossomed over my form, • 



On the day that Evirallin of the beautiful hair 

 Took her departure along with me !" 



For our observations on the courtship of Ossian and Evirallin, see 

 the pages above referred to. 



The fifth book of Fingal furnishes another plagiarism in the bat- 

 tle between Fingal and the king of Loghlainn. We have already 

 pointed out, p. 223, an Irish Tale, from which, it is probable, the lead- 

 ing circumstances of Macpherson's battle were pilfered. 



We have now nearly gone through the entire poem of Fingal, and 

 have shown how largely Mr. Macpherson has borrowed from the 

 Irish Ossian; and from what we have said, if we had nothing more to 

 produce, we submit that it must be confessed that the entire plot of 

 the poem of Fingal is taken from the ^'Laoidh Mhagnuis mhoir," of 

 the Hibernian bard ; and that most, if not all, of his episodes are 

 taken from that and other Irish poems. The Irish prose tales also 

 have been plundered for materials to form this and other of Mac- 

 pherson's works which he fathered upon Ossian. We have already 

 shown that the horses and chariot of Cuchullin were stolen from the 

 " Oidheadh Conchullain," or " Death of Cuchullain," and from the 

 " Dearg ruathar Chonaill Chearnaigh, or " Bloody Rout of Conall 

 Cearnach." Other materials were stolen from the ^^Tain ho Cuailgne," 

 or " Plunder of the Cows of Cuailgne," such as the bull of Calbun's 



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