Mlac Phersoni, James THE POEMS OF OSSIAN, IN THE ORIGINAL GAELIC, WITH A LITERAL TRANSLATION INTO LATIN, BY THE LATE ROBERT MACFARLAN, A. M. TOGETHER WITH A DISSERTATION ON THE AUTHENTICITY BY SIR JOHN SINCLAIR, BART. AND A TRANSLATION FROM THE ITALIAN OF THE ABBE CESAROTTI'S DISSER- OF OSSIAN, WITH NOTES AND A SUPPLEMENTAL ESSAY, BY JOHN M'ARTHUR, LL. D. PUBLISHED UNDER THE SANCTION OF THE HIGHLAND SOCIETY OF LONDON. MAGNA EST VERITAS ET PREVALEBIT. VOL III. LONDON: PRINTED BY W. BULMER AND CO. CLEVELAND-ROW; 1807. CONTENTS OF THE THIRD VOLUME. ORIGINAL POEMS WITH LATIN TRANSLATIONS. A Translation from the Italian of the Abbé Cesarotti's Historical and Critical Dissertation on the Controversy respecting the Supplemental Observations on the Authenticity of Ossian's Poems, by John M'Arthur, containing the following Subjects. 1. Oral Tradition, ancient Song and Music 2. Of the ancient Name and Inhabitants of Britain, and Progress of Letters among the Caledonians 3. Philological Inquiries, and the Affinity of the Celtic, or Gaelic, with the Oriental and other Languages 4. A Summary of the Evidence adduced in Support of the Authenticity of Ossian's Poems, with further Proofs 432 The original Episode of Faineasolli's, with a literal English The Original of Ossian's Address to the Sun in Carthon, with a literal Latin and English Translation Topography of some of the principal Scenes of Fingal and his 2. Description of the River Cona, and the Banks of the River Ete, by the Rev. Donald Macnicol page 523 3. Description of Inis-Connel and Inis-Eraith, the Scene of Daura, as in the Songs of Selma; also the Scenes of Cathluina and Laoi-Fraoch, by the Rev. William Campbell 523 4. Description of the Scenes of Daura and Erath, by the Rev. Dr. John Smith 524 5. Description of the Vicinity of Selma, the River Connel, and the Valley of Ete, by the Rev. Ludovick Grant 527 6. Description of Morven and its Antiquities, by the Rev. Norman Mac Leod 531 7. Probable Conjectures respecting Fingal and Ossian's burial Places 534 541 8. A Specimen of Ossiamic Music Notices of Books which treat of the Celtic Language, Customs, Manners, and Antiquities 543 Gaelic Books published in the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries 562 Gaelic and Irish Manuscripts existing in Great Britain and Ireland 566 DIRECTIONS TO THE BINDER. The Specimen of Ossianic Music to face page 541. A Map of Selma and part of the Fingalian Territories in Argyleshire, to face the blank page at the end of Topographic Accounts, |
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