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NOTES TO CANTO SECOND.
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established the shattered estates of Angus and Morton.—History of the House of Douglas. Edinburgh, 1743, Vol. II. p. 160.

Note VII.

Maronnan's cell.—St. XIII. p. 61.

The parish of Kilmarnock, at the eastern extremity of Loch-Lomond, derives its name from a cell or chapel, dedicated to Saint Maronoch, or Marnoch, or Maronan, about whose sanctity very little is now remembered. There is a fountain devoted to him in the same parish, but its virtues, like the merits of its patron, have fallen into oblivion.

Note VIII.

Bracklinn's thundering wave.—St. XIV. p. 62.

This is a beautiful cascade made at a place called the Bridge of Bracklinn, by a mountain stream called the Keltie, about a mile from the village of Callander, in Menteith. Above a chasm where the brook precipitates itself from a height of at least fifty feet, there is thrown, for the convenience of the neighbourhood, a rustic foot-bridge, of about three feet in breadth, and without ledges, which is scarcely to be crossed by a stranger without awe and apprehension.

Note IX.

For Tinc-man forged by fairy lore.—St. XV. p. 64.

Archibald, the third Earl of Douglas, was so unfortunate in