Blair Collection > Mackintosh's collection of Gaelic proverbs, and familar phrases

of his widely-scattered flock, were '• gathered unto thtvt
fold, whose Shepherd is high above the pastures ot*
the earth." Among his best patrons were, Gilbert
Innes, Esquire, of Stow, the Right Honourable Lord
Bannatyne, one of the Senators of the College of Jus-
tice, and his brother-in-law Sir John Macgregor Mur-
ray of Lanrick, to whom this Work is now inscribed,
as left in the handwriting of the original collector. la
his passing and repassing to Glenfinglas, where the in-
habitants of that solitude did abide, whose souls were
the charge of our spiritual pastor, he used to call at
Lanrick Castle, and he was never *• sent empty crjuctij.^^
From Glenfinglas, and the craggy wilds of Loch
Catrine, made now classic ground by the witchery of
Walter Scott's pen, our pastor frequently traversed the
almost inaccessible fastnesses of the Grampians, through
Glentilt to Glenshee, and thence to the north-east coast
of Scotland, unto Banffi a range of some hundred
miles, administering the ordinances of the Christian
dispensation, and working in " the Lord's Vineijard"
with unremitting zeal and indefatigable assiduity : look-
ing upon himselli as Elijah did of old, saying, ' I, even
I only, remain a prophet of the Lord; but Baal's pro-
phets are," &c. 1 Kings xviii. v. 22.
In the full persuasion that in his person centred the
sole right of the non-juring Episcopal Clergy, being
the last, as he believed, of that distinguished body of
ecclesiastics, who protested against a foreign succes-
sion, and the whiggish principles of a British hierarchy,
he, in the year 1794, instituted a process in the Su-
preme Scottish Court, against the Managers of the
>* Fund belonging to the Episcopal Clergy in Scot-
land, for behoof of their indigent brethren, their wi»