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tion points to his death and burial in Ireland. James 

 MTherson, in " Comala," a dramatic poem which appears 

 in * Ossian,' describes Fingal, the son of Comhal, as the King 

 of Morvern (' Ossian/ vol. i. p. 74 : Denham & Dick, Edin- 

 burgh, 1803). Although MTherson is a doubtful authority 

 to give as a reference, still, when read in conjunction with 

 what the Eev. Dr John M'Leod, minister of Morvern, 

 writes (in the 'New Statistical Account of Scotland' in 1843, 

 "Argyll," pp. 163, 164), there seems to have been a tradition 

 that Fingal and his followers were not only connected with 

 Morvern, but also with a large adjoining district including 

 Ardnamurchan and Morar, and ruled there. 



A much earlier reference to this district and its connec- 

 tion with the Feinne is to be found in Kirke's Psalter, 

 published in 1684, in which the author publishes the fol- 

 lowing address in Gaelic — 



" Imthigh a Dhuilleachan gu dan 

 Le dan glan diagha duisgiad thall 

 Cuir failte arfonn fial nab fionn 

 Ar-gharbh chriocha is Inseadh Gall." 



The translation, as given by Dr W. F. Skene in his valuable 

 Introduction to the Dean of Lismore's book, p. Ixxx, is as 

 follows — 



" Little volume, go boldly forth, 

 Eouse whom you reach to pure and godly strains, 

 Hail the generous land of the Feinne, 

 The Eoughbounds and the Western Isles." 



The Eoughbounds were the districts from Morvaren to 

 Glenelg, which with the Isles are thus called the land of 

 the Feinne. 



The Feinne, whoever they were, had a widespread influence 

 far beyond the districts just mentioned, and had tribesmen 

 not only in Scotland and Ireland, but even in Lochlan or 

 Northern Germany. However, if tradition is to be trusted, 

 Finn and his people seem to have had a special influence 

 within the region of Ar-gharbh Chriocha or the Eoughbounds, 

 but how that came about is not at present clear. 



In Finn's time the chieftains of a number of islands and 



