State of the Highlands in the sixteenth century, 326 Names and position of the clans, 327 Meaning of ‘Clann,’ and the personal names from which their patronymics were taken, 331 Original importance and position of Clan pedigrees, 334 First change in Clan pedigrees. Influence of legendary history of Scotland, 336 Second change. Influence of Irish Sennachies, 337 Analysis of the Irish Pedigrees, 338 Artificial character of these pedigrees, 346 Third Change. Influence of Act 1597, 346 Spurious Pedigrees, 349 Result of Analysis of Pedigrees, 364 Termination of Clanship in the Highlands, 365 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