[133] Morag's beauties are so exquisite, that all Europe, nay, the Pope would be inflamed to behold them. The passage is omitted, though worthy of the satiric vein of Mephistopheles.
[134] The gannet, or the stranger-bird, from his foreign derivation and periodic visits to the Islands.
[135] A snowy grass, well known in the moors.
[136] Lit., On the day of devotion.
[137] The mainland, or terra firma, is called Morir by the islanders.
[138] Here Morag's musical performance on the flute, form the subject of a panegyric, in which Urlar, Siubhal, and Crunluath are imitated.
[139] "Round as the shield of my fathers."—Ossian.
[140] The French military costume, distinguished by its white colour, was assumed by the Jacobites.
[141] "Come, and I will give you flesh," a Highland war-cry invoking the birds and beasts of prey to their bloody revel.
[142] Macdonald of Sleat, Macleod, and others, first hesitated, and finally withheld themselves from the party of the white cockade.