“Ye knycht Cambell maid gud defens for yi Till _Craigunyn_ with thre hunder he zeid, Yat strenth he held for all his[144] cruel deed, Syne brak ye _bryg_ quhar yai mycht not out pass Bot throuch a _furd_ quhar narow passage was Abandounly Cambell agayne yaim baid Fast upon _Avis_ yat was bathe deep and braid, Makfadzan was apon ye toyir syd, And yar on force behuffyt hym for to byd, For at ye furd _he durst nocht_ entir out, For gud Cambell mycht _set hym yan in dout_, Mak Fadzane socht, and a small passage fond Had he lasar he mycht pass off yat land Betwix a roch and ye gret wattir syd Bot four in frount na ma mycht gang or ryd.” Book vii. Chap. iv. (Edin. Edit. 1758.) The correspondence between the above description and the account which I have before given of the topography of the Pass of Brandir, must be evident to every examiner. But the identity of that place and the one mentioned in the poem, is confirmed to a degree of certainty; first, by the fact, that such a correspondence can be found in no other part of the neighbouring districts; and, secondly, by the mention which is made in the description of the poem, of names which _now_ exist in the appellation of the place to which it is supposed to apply. ‘Avis’ is well known to have been the ancient name of Loch Awe,[145] and is often met with in old poems which make mention of that lake; and Cragunyn is clearly but a mis-spelling of ‘Craiganuni,’ the name of the rocks at the extremity of the Pass of Brandir. The error is merely owing to the ignorance of the transcribers of the poem, who did not understand Gaëlic orthography. Except by persons very competently masters of the language of the country, there is scarcely a name in the Highlands more correctly written at the present day.