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public. The first I did were the three M'Lean's effigies ' and 

 M'Kinnon's cross in Eeileag Orain. I worked so hard at these 

 drawings that by the middle of July I had them all completed, 

 with the exception of a few which I added after having sent my 

 book to England." 



Eegarding these first results of our author's work in lona, 

 his old friend and daily companion there, Mr Colin M'Vean, who 

 has furnished the Editor with a short notice of the life in lona, 

 says : — 



" Among the first works undertaken by him in lona was a 

 series of drawings of the ruins of the cathedral, nunnery, and 

 chapels, and the many interesting and beautifully-sculptured 

 tombstones of chiefs, warriors, prelates, and others, renowned in 

 their day, whose ashes now mingle with the dust of the sacred 



