A history of the Highlands and of the Highland clans . if^^^a. *^^»^^.ACK|QA*^^, Dcawji by RSUai* Coiuioh (24/, Eiij-iavcd 1 y li Spod IVlh^-liol hv * I-VllTrf--^ <• I PRELIMINARY DISSERTATION. Notwithstanding the researches of the learned to trace the originof nations and the descent and progress of the different branches of thegreat human family, as found at the dawn of history, it must be con-fessed that the result has been far from satisfactory, and that many ofthe systems which have been proposed are built upon the most gratui-tous and chimerical hypotheses.
A history of the Highlands and of the Highland clans . if^^^a. *^^»^^.ACK|QA*^^, Dcawji by RSUai* Coiuioh (24/, Eiij-iavcd 1 y li Spod IVlh^-liol hv * I-VllTrf--^ <• I PRELIMINARY DISSERTATION. Notwithstanding the researches of the learned to trace the originof nations and the descent and progress of the different branches of thegreat human family, as found at the dawn of history, it must be con-fessed that the result has been far from satisfactory, and that many ofthe systems which have been proposed are built upon the most gratui-tous and chimerical hypotheses. By a comparison of languages, how-erer, considerable light has been thrown upon the affinities of nations;but beyond these philological investigations, every thing becomes vagueand uncertain. Some modern writers, particularly amongst the Germans, with thatunfortunate latitudinarianism of interpretation which distinguishes the dis-ciples of the neologian school, consider the deluge as having been confin-ed to a small portion of the globe; and upon this gratuito
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