A Tour in Quest of Genealogy - 1811 Author:Charles O'Brien Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: and in such rapid succession, that I had not time to form a clear and distinct idea of any thing I saw; so that I recollect every thing as in a state of chaos. ... more » I have been setting out this fortnight; but some untoward circumstance perpetually turns up, to occasion a change or delay in my plans. I must now wait for some papers from Ireland, by which my future movements must be governed, but I expect them every post. In one of your entertaining letters from Killar- ney, I am sorry to hear you quote Ossian's Poems as an authority for the costume of the age they refer to, as if they were real. Can you for a moment seriously think them so? If you do, I flatter myself I shall be able to shake your belief, and overcome your prejudice, by an account which I am indebted to Jones for, furnishing arguments to establish the imposture that, in my humble opinion, are unanswerable. , Jones had it from a relation, a great amateur of painting, and a friend of Mortimer, an ingenious young artist, and the most fashionable designer of his day. This gentleman happened to be on a visit to Mr. Mortimer, when Mr. Mac- pherson called to consult him about a set of designs for his Ossian, which he was now about to serve up whole, having already treated the public with a taste of it, and for that purpose had brought his manuscript with him. He described it as a bulky quarto volume, with " a small rivulet of text running through a large meadow of mar- chapter{Section 4gin." Mr. Mortimer having introduced his ama- tetir 'friend, from whose classical taste he promised to himself much assistance in settling the subjects of the designs, the counterfeit son of Fingal, tfye, bard of woody Morven, seated himself between Mr. Mortimer and his friend, and spread out his manuscript. They went cursorily throu...« less