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or the cailles o f f 'eilba, built by a mother for her four fons,
as tradition, delivered in this j tranflation of four Erfe lines,
informs :
My four fons a fair clan,
I left in the ftrath o f one glen :
My Malcomb, my lovely Chenil,
My wiwÊk my Troddan,
There had been two others, ^now totally demollibed, and each
named after her children. Mr. Gordon mentions others of this kind-,
one at Glen-dmin, two at Eajter Fearn in Rofs-Jhire, and two or three
in Lord Reafs country ; one o f which is called the Dune of Dorna-
dilla, from an .imaginary prince, who reigned two hundred andfi-xty
years before the Cbriftian aera. This appears to be fo well defcribed
by an anonymous writer in the Edinburgh magazine, that it
will poffibly be acceptable to the reader to. find it copied in the
note *.
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* “ In the molt Northern part Of Scotland, called Lord Réagi country, not far
from Tongue, and near the head of the river which runs into the North fea at Loch-
■Eribol, is the remains o f a Hone tower, which I apprehend to be a Druidic work
and to be the greateft piece of antiquity in this Hland. It is furprifing that it is
io little known even to the natives of that country : I don’t remember to have ever
feen it mentioned in any book whatever, nor do I recoiled whether Mr. Pennant
has received any information concerning it. This tower is called by the neighboring
inhabitants, the Dmre of DornadUla. It is o f a circular form, and now
■hearly refembling the fruftrum of.a cone : whether, when perfeft, it terminated in
a point, I cannot pretend to guefs ; but it feems to have been formerly higher, by
the rubbiih which lies round it. It is built of ftone, without cement, and I take
ttto be between 20 and 30 feet high Hill. The entrance is by a very low and
E e e narrow