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moulding in the low circular arch that forms the doorway,
assimilate it to those buildings in England which have been
supposed to have been built in the latter portion of the twelfth
century. Under the canopy of a low triple arch in this chapel,
is placed the lower part of Abbot Mackinnon’s cross, whose
tomb is in the cathedral. It bears the following inscription :—
“ Hsec est crux Lauchlini MacFingon et ejus filii Johannis
Abbatis de Hy facta an. dom. m°. cccclxxxix.” Not far from
this is the tomb of Macdonald, the nominal hero of Sir Walter
Scott’s poem of the “ Lord of the Isles.” In the centre of the
chapel are the tombs of M'Quarrie of Ulva, in armour, and of
M‘Lean of Grulin, with claymore and belt attached.
In the churchyard surrounding the chapel, a multitude of
sculptured tombstones mark the most ancient of Scottish
Christian burial places. They are divided into nine rows, the
third of which is called the ridge of the kings, from the tradi¬
tion of its being the funeral allotment of the kings of Scotland,