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As torrents in the bottom, of the vallies, fo rapid were 

 the ftreams of their blood. As fparks of fire from the fur- 

 nace, fo were the fparks from the fwords of the contending 

 heroes. Ofgar gave a deadly wound to armed Ulan of the 

 white teeth. So violent was the blow, it ftruck off the head 

 of the king of Spain's fon. His grave-done is on this hill, O 

 Mac-Alpin°. My words are true, O good Mac-Alpin of Alm- 

 huin. Noble were the antient heroes, nor are they equalled by 

 thofe who fucceeded them. Bleffings on the fouls of the two, 

 and blelfinf^s on the fouls of the antient heroes. 



« St. Patrick is here called Mac-AIpin, as he is frequently in thefe antient poems. 

 Mr. Mc. Pherfon has retained this title, though he has lupprefled the name of 

 St. Patrick, in order to give his poems an air of higher antiquity. See Berrathon. 

 « Tradition," fays he, " has not handed down the name of this fon of Alpin." 

 But this addrefs of Oflian to St. Patrick is entirely omitted in the Perth edition. 



