CHAPTER X.

LAND TENURE IN THE HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS SUBSEQUENT TO THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY.

Changes in tenure of land, 368 Abolition of Calps, 368 Size of townships, 369 Occupation of townships, 370 Average size of township in Central Highlands, 370 Township in the Islands, 371 Highland deer-forests, 371 Causes affecting the population in the eighteenth century, 372 Townships in the Inner Hebrides in 1850, 374 Existing townships in the Outer Hebrides, 378

APPENDIX.

I. Translation of a part of the Book of Clanranald, containing the Legendary History of the Lords of the Isles as given by the MacVurichs, hereditary Sennachies of the Clan, 397

II. Baile Suthain Sith Eamhna, an Irish poem relating to the kingdom of the Isles, with a translation by W. M. Hennessy, Esq., 410

III. The Description of the Isles of Scotland, written 1577-1595, 428

IV. On the Authenticity of the Letters Patent said to have been granted by King William the Lion to the Earl of Mar in 1171, 441

V. On the Earldom of Caithness, 448

VI. Original of the Poem on the Lennox, 454

VII. Comparison between the Highland Clans and the Afghaun Tribes. Written in 1816 by Sir Walter Scott, 456

VIII. Legendary Descent of the Highland Clans, according to Irish MSS., 458

INDEX, 493

ILLUSTRATIVE MAP.

Scotland, with the ancient divisions of the land, _to face the Title_

BOOK III.

_LAND AND PEOPLE_.

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