handed down by tradition. The Spartans, in their nation which were carefully intere with f of thei aced, in this tion was not committed to writing, but del Ca ingenuity ibed, in thes times, and no story. We mu back in antiq were their con world. If we period, we d arous times. I n Abbé de la Bleterie Remarques sur la Germain Caledonia, nature a 21 xat of the Yacas of Peru. The Peruvians d lost all other monuments of their history, i was from ancient poems, which his ntier, a princess of the blood of the Yncas, = him in his youth, that he collected the els of bis history. If other nations then, Diaditen been overrun by enemies, and -abroad and received colonies, could any ages preserve, by oral tradition, their mi Elstories uncorrupted, it is much cable that the ancient Scots, a people fntermixture with foreigners, and so tached to the memory of their an- had the works of their bards handed great purity. is advanced, in this short Dissertat be confessed, is mere conjecture. the reach of records, is settled a no ingenuity can penetrate. The described, in these poems, suit - Celtic times, and no other period in history. We must, therefore. -es far back in antiquity; and it who were their contemporaries the world. If we have placed proper period, we do honour to - barbarous times. He exercised rtue in Caledonia, while Helio ced human nature at Rome |