The lord of the isles . ghter, she said, these seas behold,Round twice a hundred islands rolld,From Hirt, that hears their northern roar,To the green Hays fertile shore ;T thwarting tides, making the navigation perilous to open boats. The suddenHaws and gusts of wind which issue without a moments warning from themountain glens, arc equally formidable. So that in unsettled weather, aBtranger, if not much accustomed to the sea, may sometimes add to the othersublime sensations excited by the scene, that feeling of dignity which arisesfrom a sense of danger. 1 The number of the western isles of Sc
The lord of the isles . ghter, she said, these seas behold,Round twice a hundred islands rolld,From Hirt, that hears their northern roar,To the green Hays fertile shore ;T thwarting tides, making the navigation perilous to open boats. The suddenHaws and gusts of wind which issue without a moments warning from themountain glens, arc equally formidable. So that in unsettled weather, aBtranger, if not much accustomed to the sea, may sometimes add to the othersublime sensations excited by the scene, that feeling of dignity which arisesfrom a sense of danger. 1 The number of the western isles of Scotland exceeds two hundred, ofwhich St. Kilda is the most northerly, anciently called Hirth, or Hirt, pro-bably from earth, being in fart the whole globe to its inhabitants, [lay,which now belongs almost entirely to Walter Campbell, Esq. of Shawfield, is THE LORD OF THE ISLES. Or mainland fittrn, where many a fcoweiOwns thy hold brothers feudal on its own dark cape reclined,And listening to its own wild wind,. From where Mingarry, sternly the woodland and the waste,1 by far the most fertile of the Hebrides, and has been greatly improved underthe spirited and sagacious management of the present proprietor. This wasin ancient times the principal abode of the Lords of the Isles, being, if nottlic largest, the most important island of their archipelago. In Martinstime, some relics of their grandeur were yet extant. Loch-Finlagan, aboutthree miles in circumference, affords salmon, trouts. and eels : this lake liesin the centre of the isle. The isle Finlagan, from which this lake hath itsname, is in it. Its famous for being once the court in which the great Appendix, Note i». THE LORD 01 Till: [SLES
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