The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott, with memoir of the author.

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tinent, but the earldom of Ross was kept for them.
Alexander, the son of Archibald, had a natural son,
called John Cam, of whom is descended Achnacoichan,
in Ramoeh, and Donald Gorm, son of Ronald, son of
Alexander Duson, of John Cam. Donald Du, son of
Angus, son of John of the Isles, son of Alexander of
the Isles, son of Donald of the Isles, son of John of
the Isles, son of Angus Og, namely, the true heir of
the Isles and Ross, came after his release from captivity to the Isles, and convened the men thereof, and
he and the earl of Lennox agreed to raise a great
army for the purpose of taking possession, and a ship
came from England with a supply of money to carry
on the war, which landed at Mull, and the money was
given to Mac-Lean of Duart to be distributed among
the commanders of the army, which they not receiving in proportion as it should have been distributed
among them, caused the army to disperse, which, when
the Earl of Lennox heard, he disbanded his own men,
and made it up with the King. Mac-Donald went
to Ireland to raise men, but he died on his way to
Dublin, at Drogheda, of a fever, without issue of either
sons or daughters."
In this history may be traced, though the Bard, or
Seannachie, touches such a delicate discussion with a
gentle hand, the point of difference between the three
principal septs descended from the Lords of the Isles.
The first question, and one of no easy solution, where
so little evidence is produced, respects the nature of'
the connection of John, called by the Archdean of the
Isles " the Good John of Ila," and 1" the last Lord of
the Isles," with Anne, daughter of Roderick Mace
Dougal, high-chief of Lorn. In the absence of positive
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