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Leat (Ih' eireadh na laoich,
Clan 1 1 Domhnaill aii fhraoich.
Sid na connsbuinu vach fai'in s an toir.
Bu ieat Banaich o thuath,
Clann-'IU-Andrais nan tua^li,
Agus Rothaich le 'm buailtibh bho.
Thig Mac-'Ic-Aileiii u'n chuan.
Le 'loingeas daiaich dubh luath,
Buidheann bharrail le 'm buailt.eadb stroic.
Buidheann alloil 11:0 rum,
Cha laigh snial air an cliu,
Leis an Alastair nisei 1 og.
The above pO' in is taken from "The
Scottish Celtic Review." a valuable work,
especially in Keltic philology, by the late
Rev. Alexander Cameron, LL. D. Tr
will be found at p ge 77 Dr. Camerois
states thai it was fiom a MS. collection
of Gselic poems transcribed from an older
MS. by Ewen Maciachlan, of Aberdeen.
It is evident that the 4th veise cannot
be correct. Lord Macdonell was married
to a sister of Sir eTames Macdonald, of
Sleat, not his daughter. If the whole of
this poem is addressed to Glengarry, who
is Morair nan steud? Mackenzie, of Kin-
tail, was Earl of Seaf(.»rth in Iain Lom's
day, and there was no Lord Macdonald of
Sleat until 1766.