Books and other items printed in Gaelic from 1801 to 1840 > Poems in English, Scotch, and Gaelic, on various subjects

NOTES.
Note a,
Maicom, Earl of Lennox, the firm friend of Robert Bruce—Sr
Alexander MacAuslane, who in the French service distinguished
himself at the battle of Tournay.—TTie Colquhouns of the parish of
Luss by recovering the Castle of Dunbarton from the English—the
MacFarlanes of Arrochar by deciding the battle of Langside against
Mary, Queen of Scotland—the two last families bear the emblems of
these actions in their coats of arms. The great Montrose, the Hero
of the Haughs of Cromdel—The warlike MacGregors likewise pos¬
sessed that part of the Banks of Lochlomond called Craigrostan—
and in literature, George Buchanan, the Historian; and in later
times, Walter MacFarlane of Arrochar, the Reverend Alexander
MacFarlane, Translator of the Psalms, Paraphrases, and Baxter's
Call to the Unconverted, into GjeIIc, and Tobias SmoUet, Phy¬
sician, Historian, and Novelist. Under this Note let it be observed,
that there are the ruins of four Castles or places of strength upon
the Islands of Lochlomond^Inchraurrin, the former residence of
the Earl of Lennox—the Castle of Galbraith, 60 feet over walls in
length, and 45 in breadtli, and two more Castles formerly the resid¬
ences of the MacFarlanes.