[87] Songs and Poems of Robert Mackay, p. 38. (Inverness, 1829. 8vo.)
[88] The Rev. Dr Mackintosh Mackay, successively minister of Laggan and Dunoon, now a clergyman in Australia.
[89] Quarterly Review, vol. xlv., April 1831.
[90] "Birk-shaw." A few Scotticisms will be found in these versions, at once to flavour the style, and, it must be admitted, to assist the rhymes.
[91] Birds.
[92] The sides of the cottages—plastered with mud or mortar, instead of lime.
[93] Salmon.
[94] "Poems," p. 318.
[95] "Anne"—Rob's first love, the heroine of the piece. "Similar in interest to the Highland Mary of Burns, is the yellow-haired Anne of Rob Donn."—"Life," p. 18.
[96] "Isabel"—the daughter of Ian Macechan, the subject of other verses.