Chapter 27 No.27

"Mac-Homer, too, in prose or song,

By the state-papers of Buffon,

To deep researches led;

A Gallo-Celtic scheme may botch,

To prove the Ourang race were Scotch,

Who from the Highlands fled."

Lord John Townshend.

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The intelligence of the return of Columbus, and of the important discoveries he had made, spread through Eur