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onally leave his rank, and pass, at a gallop, to the front, when he resumed the steady pace. The curious appearance, making the necessary allowance for imagination, may be perhaps sufficiently accounted for by optical deception." 171. Shingly. Gravelly, pebbly. 173. Thunderbolt. The 1st ed. has "thunder too." 188. Framed. The reading of the 1st ed.; commonly misprinted "formed," which occurs in 195. 190. Limbs. The 1st ed. has "limb." 191. Inch-Cailliach. Scott says: "Inch-Cailliach, the Isle of Nuns, or of Old Women, is a most beautiful island at the lower extremity of Loch Lomond. The church belonging to the former nunnery was long used as the place of worship for the parish of Buchanan, but scarce any vestiges of it now remain. The burial-ground continues to be used, and contains the family places of sepulture of several neighboring clans. The monuments of the lairds of Macgregor, and of other families claiming a descent from the old Scottish King Alpine, are most remarkable. The Highlanders are as zealous of their rights of sepulture as may be expected from a people whose whole laws and government, if clanship can be called so, turned upon the single principle of family descent. 'May his ashes be scattered on the water,' was one of the deepest and most solemn imprecations which they used against an enemy." [See a detailed description of the funeral ceremonies of a Highland chieftain in the Fair Maid of Perth.] 203. Dwelling low. That is, burial-place. 207. Each clansman's execration, etc. The MS. reads: "Our warriors, on his worthless bust, Shall speak disgrace and woe;" and below: "Their clattering targets hardly strook; And first they muttered low." 212. Stook. One of the old forms of struck. In the early eds. of Shakespeare, we find struck, stroke, and strook (or strooke) for the past tense, and all these, together with stricken, strucken, stroken, and strooken, for the participle. Cf. Milton, Hymn of Nativity, 95: "When such music sweet Their hearts and ears did greet As never was by mortal finger strook;" where, as here, it used for the sake of the rhyme. 214. Then, like the billow, etc. The repetition of the same rhyme here gives well the cumulative effect of the rising billow. 217. Burst, with load roar. See on i. 73 above; and cf. 227 below. 228. Holiest name. The MS. has "holy name." 245. Mingled with childho
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