Volume 3 - Electric Scotland

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claims to Ossian. For it is certain that he was a Persian
Magus, or Druid, or Vates. Le Brim says that he was
the direct son of Adam. But Le Brun mistook Aiam for
Adam : a trifling error. The Persians and the Guebres
considered him a Divine Prophet ; and that was the rea-
son, says Col. Charles Vallancey, F.S.A. and member of
the Philosophical Society of Philadelphia, why the Christ-
ians mistook him for the Messiah. As to his Highland
father, Fingal, or Fin Mac Coul, there must be some
error in the parentage : unless indeed he was Adam.
Which could not well be ; because he was the son of Kish-
tab, of the Pishdadan dynasty of Persia, and was killed
by Rustam the Persian Hercules. So that Mr. James
Macpherson and Dr. Blair must be incorrect, when they
say that he fought with Caracalla. The Poems of Ossian
are therefore Persian, after all : so that we have been quar-
relling about the property, for this half century, to little
purpose. There cannot remain a doubt in any rational
mind ; because Simon Brec, or Siim Breac, was Hercu-
les ; and because this very Simon " probably " com-
manded a ship which was " probably " called the Sun,
which, in Irish, is Grian, and " probably " carried off
some ships from the islands of Elisha, vulgarly called
Greece, which being " probably" covered with Cow-
hides, gave rise to the fable of Geryon and the Cows.
Four probables make one certain. And thus also it is
proved that the Irish are Persians, and that they commanded
the Egyptian fleet when Pharaoh pursued the
Israelites through the Red Sea. Any man who can
doubt the History of Ireland, must be alike divested of
sense, reason, judgment, and Hebrew ; and be equally
unfit to belong to the Philosophical Society of Philadel-
phia. Supposing' it possible, however, that Vallancey is
wrong and Macpherson right, it is more probable that the
ruins of one ofthe Stone Forts on Dunscaich Island, close at