Books and other items printed in Gaelic from 1871 to 1900 > Cunntas air boidhicheadan Ceann-Lochearn agus Edinample, or, A description of the beauties of Edinample and Lochearnhead

17 S)ascription of S£ocK Scorn
itants, on his apprehension that the
barbarous crew to whom he belong
was to seize their cattle with violence,
and to snatch them away, that he play
up a tune to alarm them of the rav¬
enous attack approached to them. The
people at that time have the use of
the intellectual faculties, that the po¬
wer of their ear of judging of harmo¬
ny, or any tune of pipe or fiddle, so in¬
telligent to them, as although were
it be in terms of communicating to
them orally. When the cruel party
comprehend the design of the said
tune, they daggered the piper, and
throwed him in a hole; of which place
its called the Cairn of Piper to this
day.
It should not be omitted to give
summary account of the famosity
cataract at Glenbeich, defining the
excellencies of its remarkable exist¬
ence. The potent stream goes down