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Ant lent GAELIC POEMS re/pea itig the Race of the FIANS, 

 colkaed in the HIGHLANDS of SCOTLAND m the 

 Tear 1784. By M. YOUNG, D. D. M.R.I.A. 



INTRODUCTION. 



1 H E great intereft which has for fome years been taken in Read April 

 the controverfy concerning the authenticity of Mc. Pherfon's '7» '786. 

 Olfian made me defirous of colleding all the information in my 

 power, during an excurfion through the Scottifh Highlands in 

 the fummer of 1784. The following poems are part of the 

 colledion which I made at that time ; and notwithftanding Mr. 

 Hill has done fo much towards bringing this warmly contefted 

 queftion to a decided iffue, I imagined they might throw fome 

 new and additional hght on the fubjed. I have therefore ven- 

 tured to lay them before the Academy, with tranflations, and a 

 few explanatory notes. 



Mr. Mc. Pherfon is by many fuppofed to be the fole and 



original author of the compofitions which he has publifhed as 



(F 2) tranflations 



