[ ^05 ] 



36. OssiAN. Comrich an da abftoil deug 

 larruidh mi dhamh fein anochd 

 'S ma rinn mi peacadh trom, 

 Bighadh e n' luigh fan torn 'n cnochd. 



" it is not eafy to conceive how one of tlie firft rank could be totally unacquainted 

 " with a religion that had been known for any time in the country." Mr. Ewing 

 Cameron, in his elegant verfion of Mc. Pherfon, obferves that the obfolete phrafes 

 and exprellions peculiar to the age prove this poem to be no forgery. And if fo, 

 a confidcrable part at leaft of Mc. Pherfon's Offian muft have a contrary judgment 

 paired on it. 



(O) 



