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The preceding contains several errors — 



1st. It was at least ten years previous to 1705 that the 

 house, gardens, and part of the estate were covered with 

 sand. It appears from the narrative of an Act of the 

 Parliament of Scotland, passed in 1695, as already men- 

 tioned, that the desolation must have taken place to a 

 considerable extent previous to 1695. Some authorities 

 say that part of the estate was overspread with sand as 

 early as 1670. 



2d. Alexander Kinnaird of Culbin disponed the lands 

 and barony of Culbin to William Duff on the 27th July, 

 1698, who disponed the same to his son Alexander Duff of 

 Drummuir on the 16th November, 1698 ; and Alexander 

 Duff conveyed Culbin to his second son John Duff on the 

 15th February, 1725. 



3d. Culbin was not sold to Major George Grant in 

 1732, but was sold to Ludovick Colquhoun of Luss in 1733. 



In Grant's edition of Shaw's History published in 1826 

 no notice is taken of these errors. Ludovick Colquhoun, 

 above referred to as the purchaser of the lands and barony 

 of Culbin, was second son of Sir James Grant of Grant 

 (son of Ludovick Grant who died in 1717), who was some 

 time designed of Pluscarden, and married in 1702 Anne 

 Colquhoun of Luss, sole heiress of Sir Humphrey Colquhoun 

 of Luss, and in virtue of the settlement of that estate, 

 made by his father-in-law, he succeeded to the estate 

 and baronetcy of Luss, and took the name of 

 Colquhoun, but upon the death of his brother Alexander 

 (1719), he resumed the name of Grant, and took possession 

 of the Grant estates, retaining the baronetcy. The estate 

 of Luss, in virtue of the entail, went to his second surviv- 

 ing son, James. But in the first instance it went to his 

 second son Ludovick, which would account for his being 



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