History of the Clan MacLean from its first settlement at Duard Castle, in the Isle of Mull, to the present period

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in Tiree, in 1868, in the ninety-eighth year of his age. He composed several
songs, one of which appears in Olarsach.
Charles MacLean, known as Tearlach MacGilleain, son of the above John
MacLean, was born in Tiree, July 2-1, 1813, and died June 27, 1880. He in-
herited his father's sound principles, and some of his poetic talent. Two of
his poems appear in Chirsach.
The late Rev. Duncan MacLean of Glenorchy was the last of the great
religious bards of the Highlands. All of his productions are pervaded by a
keenly aesthetic spirit. He is exceedingly rich in poetic illustration, and very
profound in his lines of thought, but entirely too analytical for the popular
taste. He was a man of wide general culture ; and the fruits of it he brought
into the sphere of (laelic poetry. In 18(38, a small volume of his poems was
published in Glasgow, entitled Laoidhean agus Dain. It contains seventy-
nine poems, all of a religious nature, besides fourteen translations and six
elegies.
Miss Mary MacLean of Franklin, Massachusetts, is an illustration of in-
herited genius. She is a granddaughter of Am Bard MacGilleain, and
daughter of Archibald MacLean. She has written many short poems which
have been commended by competent judges. She was born March 28, 1856,
in Marshy Hope, Nova Scotia, and in 1881, removed to her present home.
Malcolm MacLean, who died about the year 1761, was a native of Kin-
lochewe, in Ross-shire. When a young man, he Unlisted in the army, and
there formed that habit which made him a bacchanalian of the first magni-
tude. On returning home, he was granted a small pension, and occupied a
small piece of ground at the foot of Ben Fuathais. His wife was remarkable
for her patience and resignation, and was well worthy being styled the sister
of Job. He was the author of one of the most popular songs of Scotland,
entitled " Calum a Ghlinne ; " or, Malcolm o" the Glen.* The occasion of the
song was as follows : MacLean had an only child, a daughter of uncommon
beauty and loveliness ; but owing to her father's drinking habits, she was un-
wooed, unsought, and, for a long time, unmarried. The father, in his ex-
ordium, portrays the charms and excellent qualities of his daughter, dealing
some excellent side-blows at fortune-hunters, but taking a reasonable share of
blame to himself for depriving her of the bait necessary to secure a good at-
tendance of wooers. The song has many excellent qualities, and its terseness
' See Appendix, Note C, No. 8.