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4 correspondent of the London Tele-
graph, writing from Inverary and speak
ing of the coming of the Princess
Louise to her new Scottish home, SAYS:
"Howeyer, the bride may come, She
will be reminded on every side Of the
mighty past. The biggest-mouthed
thunder that will welcome her advent
viii come from an ancient cannon, fish
ed up near the Land of Null, by an an
cestor of the present Duke, and sup
posed to be Il relic of the Spanish Arm
ada. 1t was probably captured at the
battle Of Payia, from the French for
the gun, which is some Is feet long, has
on it the initial Z and the veru or sala-
mander, emblem of Francis t.. which
one sees chiselcd all over the famous
outside staircase ut BlOis, and in many
another editice erected IN his reign
Then the very trees, among the Oldest
in TINS part Of Scotland, have nm his
torical significance, for they were most
ly planted by the unfortunate Earl OF
MOntrose, who was beheaded. There
is an avenue OF betches on the way to
Dhuloch, among the very finest [ have
ever seen, and gigantic tir-tree, some
- feet in girth, and 90 feet in height.
Even the yellow and black flag that
waves from the battlemeuts presents
in Itself an cpitome of the various steps
which have led the Argylls ID their
present high position. The galley or
Iynnphad, as the old fashioned ship
is technically called in heraldry, has
its origin III the creation of Colin, Earl
of Argyll, by james IT,, just as the
chequers or the device of eight pieces
to pay and diamond, to speak familiar
ly, represent the Campbells The boar's
head, the well-known device of the
family, is a memento of Il deed otsport-
ing prowess done by Sir Duncan, in
the time of the first of James of Scot
land, whom he liberated from an Eng
lish prison. This doughty MacCallum
More, fifth ilk, was the first to take the
name of Argyll, rs we'll as the boar's
head, celebrated in Flora Macdonald's
song to Wayerley:
. Let the son OF Brown Diarmid, who slew the
wild boar,
Resume the pure faith of the great Callum More
Had Sir Walter lived in our day he
might have been converted to the faith
of John Campbell, OF Islay, one of
whose West Highland legions tells us
how, instead of Diarmid killing the
boar, it was the boar that killed him.
An enemy made a bet that he could not
measure the length of a boar he had
killed by pacing its back with his bare
feet. lie won the bet, but lost his life,
bleeding TO death from the wound made
by the bristles. Even the old motto,
still much seen about, 'Nixea nostra
voso, recalls the great Duke Of Argyll
and Greenwich the Red Duke, the Ian
Ruo of the Highlanders, who has
gorgeous white marble monument in
Westminster Abbey, and whose pious,
modest motto has in that pure spirit
level an ironical significance. 1t IS
noteworthy, by-the-bye, how the epj-
tibet red has followed the race from
the time of Duibu fuilt derg Chat is
to say the red-haired,) in the eighth
century, almost to our own day. But
enough OF the merely heraldic memoir
los ola family which dates its proper
name of Campbell to marriage with
niece of William the ConQueror, ga
leircss Of BeaGchamp, and which traces
back Its ancestry through King Arthur
of the Table Round to the grandfather
of Teunvson's MOBILES 1t is however,
even more "a thepurpose thaa tAraa gh-
out its long line, the family has almost
invariably displayed enormous nstua.
capacity AID power and that the whole
clan counts an extraordinary numue" ~
military, political aud literary ca-euu-