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T he T a v .
D a l r i e Ba t t l e .
C u EIQUS
B r o t c h e .
Immediately below the village of 1'yendrum rifes the river Day,
which takes its courfe into the eaftern fea ; fuch oppofite currents
have two ftreams, not half a mile diftant from each other.
Ride over the fmall plain '-of Dalrie, perhaps the feat of the Dal-
reudini mentioned by Bede *, dr the anticnt government of Dalrieta,
noticed by Camden +. On this fpot was the conflift between
Robert Bruce, and the forces of Argylejhire, under. Mac-daugal chieftain
of Lorn, when the former was defeated. A fervant of Lorn
had feized on Bruce, but the prinçe efcaped by killing the fellow
with a blow of his battle-ax ; but at the fame time loft his mantle
and brotche, which the affailant tore away in his dying agonies.
The brotche was long preferved in the family ; at length deftroyed
by a fire, that confümed the houfe of Dunolly, the refidence of
the reprefentative. In default of that, the annexed plate exhibits
one probably not inferior in magnificence. It had been the property
of Macleane, of Loch-buy, in the ifie of Mull, and is faid to
be made of filver found on the eftate. The workmanlhip is elegant,
and feems to be of the time of Queen Elizabeth Jt It is
about five inches diameter at bottom. Round the upper margin
is a low upright rim; within that are ten obelifcs, about an inch
and a quarter high, prettily ftudded, and the top of each ornamented
with a river pearl. Thefe furround a fécond rim ; from
that rifes a neat cafe, whofe fides project into ten demi-rounders,
all neàtly ftudded. In the center is a round eryftalline ball, a ma-
* lib . I, c . i . -j. p. 1241.
% This tine ornament is in the poffeffion o f the R ev. Mr. Lort, late Greek Profefior
a t Cambridge, who favored me with the loan Qf it.
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