[99] Chronicles of the Picts and Scots, Int. p. xxxvii.
[100] P. 275.
[101] From Dean of Lismore’s Book, with a few verbal alterations, p. 157.
[102] Irish Grammar, p. 449.
[103] This question has been recently discussed by the Rev. Archibald Clerk of Kilmallie, in his elegant edition of the Poems of Ossian, published since the above was written, under the auspices of the Marquis of Bute. We refer our readers to Mr Clerk’s treatise for a great deal of varied and interesting information on this subject.
[104] Logan on the Scottish Gael, vol. ii. 252-3.
[105] Report of the Committee of the Highland Society of Scotland on the Poems of Ossian, App. No. xix., p. 290.
[106] It is, therefore, probable that these genealogies were written about the middle of the sixteenth century. A fac simile of the writing is to be found in the Report of the Committee of the Highland Society on the authenticity of Ossian, Plate II.
[107] Report of the Committee of the Highland Society on Ossian, App. No. xix., p. 291.
[108] Ogyg., p. 275.