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g DAN an DEIRG.
Rinn e miolaran, *s thug leum gàbhaidh,
Le mar aoibhneas ghios na tràgha.
Mar fhaighead o ghlacaibh an iughair *,
Bha chafan a' fiubhal nam barra-thonn ;
'S b' aite leis na mac na h eilde
Dcarg, 's e leum ri uchd a bhràghad.
'S chunnacas fbdan na deife,
Le folus brifteach nan reultan,
Mac-famhuil coinneamh nan cairdean
An tra tharlas doibh an cèin-thir.
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* Every body knows the bow to have been made of yew.
Among the Highlanders of later times, that which grew in
the wood of Eafragain, in Lorn, was efteemed the beft.
The feathers moft in vogue for the arrows were furniflied by
the eagles of Loch-Treig; the wax for the ftring by Baile-
■na-gailbhinny and the arrow-heads by the fmiths of the race
of Mac PheiJearain. This piece of initrudtion, like all the
other knowledge of the Highlanders, was couched in verfe :
Bogha dh' iughar Eafragain,
Is ite' firein Locha Trèig ;
Cèir bhuidhe Bhaile-na-gailbhinn,
'S ceann o 'n cheard Mac Pheidearain.