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

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the present to say, that since the year 1775, when their name, and
all the privileges and immunities of free British subjects, were re-
stored to this brave Clan, many individuals of them have risen
into high rank in society, and to a correspondent opulence and
respectability, equal at least to any other of the Clans who inhabit
the regions of the Grampians and Western Isles.
Of the Macgregors are descended the Macnabs, MackinnonSj
and many other Clans of lesser note, besides many more respect-
able branches of Clan Alpin, such as those of the name of Grego-
ry, Grierson, Grieve, &c. And not a few families, and their fol-
lowers, who have not resumed their ancient name Macgregor, not
only in Scotland, but likewise in England and Ireland; and
among the number is the family of that illustrious statesman Lord
Castlereagh,
Note (ct) page 71.
The Farquharsons are called Clan Fhionla, or Clan FInlay,
and the sirnames Fmlay, Finlayson, and Mackinlay, are derived
^rom the same source.
Note {g) page 103.
Magilony was one of the most celebrated hunters of the
Grampians ; the vestiges of his temporary hunting- huts are still
pointed out to the enquiring visitant among the mountains of
Athole. The greatest deer-hunter of our own day is assuredly
his Grace the present Duke of Athole, who has, it is well known,
in his extensive deer-forest in Athole, a stock of between three
and four thousand mountain deer : and it is likewise well known