. Popular tales of the West Highlands : orally collected. n of Gaelic poetry was made some years ago inSkye for Mrs. Ferguson, sister of jMacLeod of MacLeod. Thereare 795 lines of the usual traditional poetry, with stanzas andlines which 1 had not previously got, and with many collection comprises— 1. Laoidh Chuinn, lines 128 2. „ Dhiarmaid, „ 84 3. ,, na Inghean, „ 65 4. „ an Araadain Mhor, „ 222 5. ,, an Dearg, „ 116 6. „ Phadric na Salm, „ 180 795Several Ossianic pieces were printed in a book published 1814at Edinburgh, Thoughts on the Origin and Descent of theGael, etc. etc.

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. Popular tales of the West Highlands : orally collected. n of Gaelic poetry was made some years ago inSkye for Mrs. Ferguson, sister of jMacLeod of MacLeod. Thereare 795 lines of the usual traditional poetry, with stanzas andlines which 1 had not previously got, and with many collection comprises— 1. Laoidh Chuinn, lines 128 2. „ Dhiarmaid, „ 84 3. ,, na Inghean, „ 65 4. „ an Araadain Mhor, „ 222 5. ,, an Dearg, „ 116 6. „ Phadric na Salm, „ 180 795Several Ossianic pieces were printed in a book published 1814at Edinburgh, Thoughts on the Origin and Descent of theGael, etc. etc. By James Grant,advocate. These include ver-sions of— 1. Bas Dhiarmaid. 2. Address to the Sun. 3. Ditto. 4. Comhrag Fhinn agus Ghairbh Mac Stamn. 5. Cuchullin in his Car, and some fragments. Those which were orally collected for the author in Eoss andSkye are of the usual traditional character, but he condemns thefirst as wanting in poetical merit. He was a firm believer in thepublished Ossian, and the book is worthy of attention. Jj.

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