132 TRANSACTIONS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. [Vow. II]. 
Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of 
Iona.” 
In the preface to Lluyd’s Archezologia Britannica which was pub- 
lished in 1707, there are to be found complimentary addresses in Latin 
verse by Gaelic ministers. Those addresses extol the zeal and learning of 
the Welsh philologist, and are couched in Hexameters and Alcaics and 
Sapphics of such tuneful accuracy as to show that the ministers of that 
time were good classical scholars. The Rev. John MacLean, at that time 
minister of the parish of Kilninian, Mull, bestowed warm commendations 
in Gaelic verse on the father of Celtic philology. With regard to the 
antiquity of Gaelic, he thus writes: 
“Si labhair Padric ’nninse Fail na Riogh 
San faighe caomhsin Colum naomh tha’n I; 
Na Francigh liobhta ’lean gach tir a mbeus 
O I na ndeori, ghabh a mfoghlum freimh. 
B’i bhoide muinte’ Luchd gach duthch is teangth. 
Chuir Gaill is Dubhghaill chuic’an tiulsa’ n’clonn, 
Air Sar o Liath biodh adh is cuimhnn’ is buaidh, 
Do rinn gu hur a dusgadh as a huaimh.” 
Those verses have been happily rendered into English verse : 
““T was Gaelic Patrick spoke in Innis-Fayl 
And sainted Calum in Iona’s Isle, 
Rich polished France where highest taste appears, 
Received her learning from the Isle of tears. 
Ie alma mater, of each tribe and tongue 
Once taught for France and Germany their young. 
Great praise and thanks, O noble Llwyd be thine, 
True learned patriot of the Cumbrian line ! 
Thou hast awaked the Celtic from the tomb, 
That our past life her records might illume.” 
The Island of I or Iona or Icolumkill, is on the Western Coast of 
Argyllshire. A few miles north of it is the Island of Staffa with its 
wonderful cave, which bears the name of Fingal’s Cave. The Giant’s 
Causeway in the north of Ireland may be regarded as a continuation or 
a reproduction of the same basaltic and many sided columns which go 
to form Fingal’s Cave, though seventy or eighty miles intervene between 
Staffa and the north of Ireland. North-east of Iona lies the Island of 
Ulva, famous as the birthplace of the ancestors of the illustrious David 
Livingstone. Not far from Iona is a group of islands, forming a parish 
to which the designation, the parish of small isles is given—a parish of 
which the Rev. Zachary Macaulay, the great-grandfather of Lord 
Macaulay the English historian, was once minister. To the north-east 
of Iona lies Morven—a name which every lover of Gaelic associates with 
