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 The dedication of Albania to General Wade, in heroic couplets, seems to be the composition of the original editor. Aaron Hill thus addresses the editor of Albania:

In these verses, the "" to General Wade is clearly attributed to the editor; a circumstance which might almost have been inferred from the encomiastic strain in which is mentioned in the. In the following verses, Hill declares the editor, as well as the author of Albania, to be a Scotsman:

From the time of Aaron Hill, Albania remained unnoticed and unknown, till it was quoted by Dr. Beattie of Aberdeen, in a note to his Essays on Poetry and Music,