Ossian Collection > Remarks on Dr. Samuel Johnson's Journey to the Hebrides

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ance, in the pofTefTion of Dr. William Mac-
farlane, now the laird of Macfarlane.
One Dr. O'Connachar of Lorn, In Ar-
gylefliire, wrote all his prefcriptions in
Gaelic ; and his MS. has been feen by-
many gentlemen ftill alive In that county.
There are, at prefent, two very old
manufcripts in the poffeffion of a gentle-
man in Argylefhire. One of them con-
tains the Adventures of Smerbie More, one
of the predeceffors of the family of Argyle ;
who, as appears from the genealogy of
that family, lived in the fifth century.
The Dodtor, perhaps, will not be much
pleafed to hear, that the other contains the
Hiftory of Clanuifneachain^ or the fons of
Ufnochy a fragment in Fingnl.
The fame gentleman is likewife pofleffed
of * Profnachadh Catha Chlann Donihnuilly
* A fpeecli to cheer up the Macdonalds, when beginning
the battle.
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