Excerpt from Poems by Allan Ramsay, Vol. 1 of 2 That I have expreli my thoughts in my native' dialed}, was not only inclination, but the defrie of my beii: and wifefi friends; and mofi reafonable, fince good imagery, lull fimilies, and allmanner of ingenious thoughts, . In a well laid delign, difpofed into numbers, is poetry.-then good oetry may be in any language - But fome nations lgeak rough, and their words are confounded with a multitude of hard confonants, which makes the numbers unhar. Monious. Befides, their language is (entity, which makes a difagreeable repetition of the famewords, e - Thefe are no defects in ours the pronunciation is liquid and (onerous, and much fuller than the Englyb, 'of which we are mailers, by being taught it in our fchools, and daily reading it; which being added to all our own native words, of eminent-fl v nificancy, makes our tongue by far the complete for infiance. I can fay, an empty Iron/e, a team darts], a w-bead, and a Inflow hart - Many ofuch ex: amples might be given, but let this one fuffice.

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