. Poetry of nature, : comprising, a selection of the most sublime and beautiful apostrophes, histories, songs, elegies, &c. from the works of the Caledonian bards. The typographical execution in a style entirely new, and decorated with the superb ornaments, of the celebrated Caslon. . m p^ r\ ^^^J^-^ c^iid:. CONTENTS AND EXPLANATORY NOTES. APOSTROPHE to OSSUN, Page OUR D.—The Ourd is the tmnk of a large tree, fet on fire,round uliich the Highlanders Iblemnize peculiar feflivals;a cuftom rigidly obierved at this day in many parts of theCountry. A LB IN.—This word fignifies a Mountainous ConnXxy
. Poetry of nature, : comprising, a selection of the most sublime and beautiful apostrophes, histories, songs, elegies, &c. from the works of the Caledonian bards. The typographical execution in a style entirely new, and decorated with the superb ornaments, of the celebrated Caslon. . m p^ r\ ^^^J^-^ c^iid:. CONTENTS AND EXPLANATORY NOTES. APOSTROPHE to OSSUN, Page OUR D.—The Ourd is the tmnk of a large tree, fet on fire,round uliich the Highlanders Iblemnize peculiar feflivals;a cuftom rigidly obierved at this day in many parts of theCountry. A LB IN.—This word fignifies a Mountainous ConnXxy, andfeems once to have been the name of all the Ifland: butafter the Saxons had defeated the South Britains, and becamemafters of that divifion; fuch of them as maintained theirindependancy, were honoured with the appelation of Ualjh,Vr Nobility^ in oppofition to die vulgar, who fubmitted to die ( Iv ) the conquerors; and the northern divifion, comprehendingall Scotland^ has been lince invariably known by the name of A L B I N. COMPLAINT of the BARD. Pages T o s c A R, father of M a l v i n a, to the latter of which thisComplaint is addrefled by Ossi an, as are many other ofhis tendered compofitions: She appears to have been in lovewith Oscar, the fon of O s s i a n, and to have affeftedthe comp
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