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278 THE CELTIC MAGAZINE. "
Eadar drochaid AUt Eire
'S rugha Shleibhte nan tonn
A dlieanadh. leat eiridh
Warn biodh do chreuchdan Ian thoU,
'S a rachadh bras ann a t-eirig
Dheadh Shir Sheumais nan long.
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Also see the Piohaire Dall, in composing a dan to Sir Alexander Mac-
donald of Sleat, where he said : —
B'aithne dhomh Sir Seumas Mor,
'S b'eol dhomh Domhnull a Mhac,
B'eol dhomh Domhnull eile ris
Chumadh fo chis no sloigh ceart ;
B'eol dhomh Domhnull na n' tri Don'ull
'S ge b-og e bu mhor a chliu,
Bhi'dh fearaibh Alb' agus Eirinn
Ag eiridh leis anns gach cuis,
B'eol dhomh Sir Seumas mo ruin
T-athair-sa Mhic chliuitich fein,
'S tus a nis an siathamh glun
Dh'ordaich Righ nan dul nan deigh :
!N'an tuiteadh m' aois cho fad a mach
'S do mhac-sa theachd air mo thim —
Be sin dhomh-sa, an seachdamh glun
Thainig air an Dun ri' m' linn.
Yours, &c.,
A NOVASCOTIAN MACDONALD.
THE CLAN IVEE.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE CELTIC MAGAZINE.
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Sir, — In the excellent little book of notes issued by Mr Mackena
of Findon, introductory to the sheets of genealogies, I notice at page 15
that he speaks of the Macivers, Macaulays, &c., as being Scandinavians.
I do not think there is any evidence for this. In the case of the Macivers
I am satisfied that it is pure assumption. Principal Campbell, the historian
of the Macivers, assumes them to be Scandinavian, because the name[dl
" Iver " or '' lamhiar " is, he thinks, not Celtic, But this is not reason.- $
ing, and there have been too many groundless attempts made to rob us ol '£
our superior native descent. While I write in disapprobation of the]'
Scandinavian assumption, and while I trust Findon is wrong also with his f
bastard Irish-Italian origin for the Mackenzie clan, I cannot withhold from
him my admiration for the public spirit he has shown in issuing the ex-
cellent series of sheets of clan pedigrees. What a pity a similar monu-l
meut of research were not in existence respecting aU our Northern Clans.
But, as Findon truly says, " The means which existed in years gone by
of collecting details of family history in the Highlands are now-a-days not j^
so attainable ; the old Highland gentlemen and ladies whose memories "