Blair Collection > Celtic gleanings, or, Notices of the history and literature of the Scottish Gael

nealogists of any authority allow of its having
been exchanged for another. Equally Celtic
are the M'Donalds, the descendants of Colla
Uais, with their different offshoots, the M'Dou-
galls, M'Queens, M'Kanalds, M'Intyres, and
others, having their later descent from the great
Someiied, thane of Argyll. The clan Alpin,
as indicated by their supposed descent from a
Scottish King, are a Celtic race. They embrace
the M'Gregors, the Grants, the Macnabs, the
Colquhouns, the M'Kinnons, and other minor
septs. The different branches of the Catti pos-
sess the same distinction. They embrace all
those septs which have the cat as their emblem,
— including the Sutherlands, although attempts
have been made to prove them Teutons, — the
Mackintoshes, M'Phersons, M'Gillivrays, and a
host of other septs. The Stewarts are in all
probability Celts, whose original seat was in
Galloway, one of the most Celtic portions of
Scotland. The M'Kenzies are Celts, having,
no doubt, their supposed descent from one of the
Irish Fitzgeralds, — a descent, however, not
borne out by any documentary evidence of the
smallest value. We have little hesitation in
averring that there were M'Kenzies in Scotland
ere ever a Fitzgerald set foot in Ireland. The
Camerons, M'Leans, M'Niells, M'Kays, Bosses,