[116] Robertson’s Early Kings, i. 102, 103, 104.
[117] Highlanders, i. 16.
[118] Highlanders, p. 7, et. seq.
[119] For details concerning the practical working of the clan system, in addition to what are given in this introduction, we refer the reader to chaps. xviii., [xlii.], [xliii.], [xliv.] of Part First.
[120] We are indebted for much of what follows to Skene’s Highlanders of Scotland, vol. i. p. 153, et seq.
[121] Letter xix., part of which has already been quoted in ch. xlii., but may with advantage be again introduced here.
[122] Description of the Western Islands. London, 1703.
[123] Skene’s Highlanders of Scotland, vol. ii. ch. 7.
[124] Skene’s Highlanders of Scotland, vol. i. chap. 7, pp. 166, 167.
[125] Skene’s Highlanders of Scotland, vol. i. pp. 172, 173.