[20] Mackenzie's "Gaelic Poets," p. 56.
[21] Johnson's Works, vol. xii. p. 291.
[22] Poems, Chambers' People's Edition, p. 134.
[23] Armstrong's "Gaelic Dictionary," p. 63.
[24] Edinburgh Review on Mitford's "Harmony of Language," vol. vi. p. 383.
[25] Brown's "History of the Highlands," vol. i. p. 89.
[26] Armstrong's "Gaelic Dictionary," p. 64.
[27] See also Logan's "Scottish Gael," vol. ii. p. 252.
[28] The Shepherd entertained the belief that he was born on the 25th of January 1772.
[29] Mr Macturk is well remembered in Dumfriesshire as a person of remarkable shrewdness and unbounded generosity.