[458] Duchray’s Narrative.

[459] Pennant’s Tour in Scotland, vol. i. pp. 353–355.

[460] Pennant’s Tour in Scotland, vol. i. Appendix.

[461] Letters and Journals, vol. iii. p. 387.

[462] Quoted in Chambers’s Domestic Annals, vol. ii. p. 248.

[463] Dom. Annals, vol. ii. p. 249.

[464] Idem, vol. ii. p. 218. Whitelocke’s Memorials.


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Highland Manners, Customs, &c.—Character of ancient Highlanders—Highland Dress—Superstitions—Kelpies—Urisks—Daoine Shith—Practices in the Western Islands—Deis-iuil—Second-sight—Weddings—Social duties—Courage—Love of Country—Bards—Highlanders’ feeling with regard to death—Hospitality—Clans—Creachs—Cearnachs or Catherans—Chiefs—Relation of the Clans to their Chiefs—Appendix on Highland Dress.