A Tour in Scotland And Voyage to the Hebrides 1772 volume 1
A Tour in Scotland And Voyage to the Hebrides 1772 volume 1
Thomas Pennant
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Opinion, that a piece of it conveyed to the poifeflbr fuccefs in whatever he undertook. A very fmall portion is now left •, and even that we contributed to diminifh. Near the altar is the tomb of the abbot Mac-kinnon. His figure lies recumbent, with this infcription round the margin, Hie facet Johannes Mac-Fingone abbas de Hy, qui obiit anno Domini MilleJJimo quingentejJimo y cujus ariwite -proptietur Deus altiffimus. Amen. On the other fide is the tomb and figure of Abbot Kenneth. On the floor... is the effigy of an armed knight, with a whilk by his fide, as if he juft had returned from the feaft of fhells in the hall of FingaU Among thefe. Funereal fubjects, the interment (a few years ago) of a female remarkable for her lineage muft not be omitted. She was Clam an Oister. A direct defcendant, and the laft of the Clan an oifier^ ojliarii, or door- keepers to the monailery. The firft of the family came over with Columba, but falling under his difpleafure, it was decreed on the im- precation of this irritable faint, that never more than five of his clan mould exifb at one time -, and in confequence when a fixth was born, one of the five was to look for death.
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