THE DEAN OF LISMORE'S BOOK, A SELECTION OF ANCIENT GAELIC POETRY FROM A MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION MADE BY SIR JAMES M'GREGOR, CONTENTS. FACSIMILES (I.) GENEALOGY of M'Gregor, BY DOUGAL THE Servitor. (II.) LINES BY COUNTESS OF ARGYLE, ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF POEMS SELECTED FROM IT, WITH NOTES, BY THE REV. THOS. M‘LAUCHLAN, ORIGINAL TEXT, WITH TRANSLATION INTO MODERN Frontispiece INTRODUCTION. IN the heart of the Perthshire Highlands, and not far from the northern shore of Loch Tay, there lies a secluded vale of about six miles long. The river Lyon, which issues from the long and narrow valley of Glenlyon through the pass of Chesthill, hardly less beautiful than the celebrated pass of Killichranky, meanders through it. On the east bank of a small stream which falls into the Lyon about the centre of the vale, is the Clachan or Kirkton of Fortingall, anciently called Fothergill, from which it takes its name; and on the west or opposite bank is the mansion of Glenlyon House, anciently called Tullichmullin. A stranger stationed at the clachan or little village of Fortingall, would almost fancy that there was neither egress from nor ingress to this little district, so secluded and shut in among the surrounding mountains does it appear to be. It is a spot where one could well suppose that the traditions of former times, and the remains of a forgotten oral literature, might still linger in the memories of its inhabitants; while the local names of the b |