412 GAELIC POETRY. 



In reference to this old story it may be mentioned that 

 at this day there is a very light-coloured deer in this 

 forest, which all the foresters speak of as the white deer. 



If "Lord Reay's country" can boast of having given 

 birth to the celebrated poet Rob Doun, the precincts of 

 the " Black Mount " are not perhaps less famous for pro- 

 ducing a bard who nourished in those rude regions about 

 fifty or sixty years ago. His name is Duncan Macintyre ; 

 some translations from his poems have obligingly been ob- 

 tained and transmitted to me by the present Marquis of 

 Breadalbane. 



Thus I have it in my power to give a specimen of the 

 beautiful imagery of one of these translations from the 

 Gaelic, rendered in a more modern garb by the celebrated 

 pen of Mr. D'Israeli, jun. 



