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p. 31, L 4.
State.
Celt. Eng., stead.
p. 31,1. 6.
Swimed. (sic),
p. 31,1. 7.
7Cill^n,s Jnn.
The ruling passion strong in death; or at
any rate in wounds. Ah Major! had you
kept more by your own fire-side, and not
frequented this Howff so much,there would
have been fewer black eyes and broken
heads forthe guid-wife at home to patch up.
p. 31,1. 10.
valiant number.
The phrase ‘valiant’, when applied to
Breadalbane people, seems to imply their
being in possession of a force numerically
treble that of their opponents.
p. 31,1. 18.
dissipated.
In those “good old days”, even the very
beasts of the field seem to have departed
from their bucolic innocence, and to have
been inoculated with the intemperate hab¬
its of their owners!
p. 32,1. 20.
&ne of the men.
Tradition affirms that one of the Ossianic

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