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168 THE CELTIC MAGA2:iNE.
sent admit of publication, but we hope Mr Mackay will add to it, and give it to us iiji
aiKJther form. The Kev. Mr Bl83ET, Stratberrick, replied iu an exoeedingly happ I i
manner. "The Press" was proposed by Mr D. CAMPBELL, Bridge Street, and replied t J
by Mr W. B. Forsyth of tao Inverness Advertiser. Captan Scobie proposed "Thj '
Croupiers," and Mr JoLLT replied. Mr Wm. Mackat proposed the Secretary, Mr Wn: i i
Mackenzie, who, he said, conducted the wotk of the Society iu a manner so efficient an ( I
admirable as to make it impossible to over-estimate his aervices. i
Sir Kenneth Mackenzie of Gaiiloch, Bart., who was received with load applausd a
again and ag.iiu I enewed, proposed the health of the Chairman. (Clieers.) One of th I
advantages which he (Sir Kenneth) had experienced by being present at this nieetioi \
was that he had been enabled to form the acquaintance of Mr Macdonald of Skaebosi- [
whoin, it was, indeed, a very great pleasure to know, and to have as Chief of this Societ;| i
(Aiiplause.) He had been lung known as an excellent Highland gentleman, and a moSj |
indulgent landlord; and in an age when the necessities of the many are sometiuKN
sacriticed to the pleasures of the few — in an age when game on Highland propertiii 1
frequently assumed a greater importance, considering the population, than it ought \] \
assume— there was nothing of the kind to be found on Mr Macdouald's property ii:
Skye. (Cheers.)
The CHAIEBU.N briefly replied, gave "Good Night," and the meeting separater t
Gaelic and English songs were sung in the course of the evening by Messrs Fraset ',
Mauld ; Jolly, Maclean, and Whyte ; and Pipe- Major Maclennan greatly enhanced tl! I
pleasuie of the meeting by discoursing excellent bag pipe music. '<
BOOKS, &C., RECEIVED.— " Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness; a
vol. viii. ; Isaiah Frae Hebrew intil Scottis," by the Rev. P. Hately Waddell, LL.EJ J
" Mackay's Regiment," by John Mackay of Benreay ; and " Bonnie Prince Charlie,''; 1!
Drama. \ '
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