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Ranald's, of four hundred; to Keppoch's, of two hundred and
fifty : and this shall be your warrant.
" Alex. Gordon.
" To Mr Colin Simpson,
commissary of provisions."
" M'Kenzie and M'Pherson's coming,
And the wild M'Craw's coming."
The M'Kenzies are a powerful but scattered clan : Lord Sea-
forth led them and the M'Craws. The latter is a wild rude clan,
who chiefly inhabit the district of Kintail ; but, what is quite an
anomaly among the clans, they have no chief of the same name,
nor ever had one, having always acknowledged Seaforth as their
head. To his house they were ever most firmly attached, though
they hated the rest of the name, and were jealous of them. The
M'Phersons of Badenoch belong to the Clan-Chattan, and were
nest to the M'Intoshes in power. They sometimes claimed
the superiority. Cluny is their chief.
"Donald Gun and a's coming."
There are a few scattered families of this name, chiefly in Ross-
shire. But this seems to be introduced here merely for its singu-
larity ; the list being thus artfully wound up by the drollest
sounding name of the whole.
These two last songs bring me again back to the Highlands, to
which the greater part of my future researches in this work must
be confined. Many of the foregoing songs relate to the struggles
of the two parties in the cabinet : those that follow relate to their
struggles in the field, and the woes, destructions, and sufi'erings
that ensued. The Highlanders are collected, and the next volume
begins, of course, with the battle of Sherifi"muir.