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^/2 E N O U I R Y concerning the ORIGINAL of the 

 SCOTS in BRITAIN. 



Bj> Dr. BARNARD, Bijhop of KILLALOE, M.R.I.A. 

 and F. R. S. 



X HE original of that portion of the inhabitants of Britain Read March 

 properly called Scots, has been a point of hiftory fo eftablilhed 

 by the concurrence of all writers on that fubjed, both native 

 and foreign, from venerable Bede down to Sir George Mc. 

 Kenzie, that, for a period of at leaft nine hundred years, it was 

 never efteemed matter of queftion, until fome late Scottifh anti- 

 quarians, anxious to fupport an hypothefis, inconfiflent with their 

 own annals and tradition, have thought proper wholly to rejedl 

 the received opinion of their anceftors on this head, and to offer 

 to the public in its place an entire new fyftem of their own, 

 founded on arguments of probability, fufficiently plaufible and 

 ingenious, but unfupported by written teftimonies, or any au- 

 thentic documents whatfoever. 



(D) Having 



