The Gaelic is not easily translated into felicitous English, but it has been given by Dr. Macneill, somewhat literally thus:— Tell us some of the charms of the stars; Close and well-set were her ivory teeth; White as the cannach upon the moor Was her bosom the tartan bright beneath. Her well-rounded forehead shone Soft and fair as the mountain snow; Her two breasts were heaving full; To them did the hearts of the heroes flow. Her lips were ruddier than the rose, Tender and tunefully sweet her tongue; White as the foam adown her side Her delicate fingers extended hung. Smooth as the dusky down of the elk Appeared her two narrow brows to me; Lovely her cheeks were like berries red; From every guile she was wholly free. Her countenance looked like the gentle buds Unfolding their beauties in early spring; Her yellow locks like the gold-browed hills, And her eyes like the radiance the sunbeams bring. In the same year, 1780, in which Dr. Smith issued his renderings, another small volume of translations of so-called ancient Gaelic poetry appeared under the title _Caledonian Bards_. It was by John Clark, apparently a very much poorer imitator of Macpherson, and hailing from the latter’s own native district, Badenoch. Among the poems submitted, appears the “Mordubh,” already referred to, and which in its vernacular garb has misled more than one Celtic enthusiast. Of the latter, besides Mackenzie, Mrs. Grant of Laggan, 1755–1838, was so far deceived that, taking Clark’s eighteenth century contribution for genuine ancient poetic material, she set herself to render some of it into more beautiful verse of her own. A contemporary and friend of Sir Walter Scott, this lady takes a high place in the Highland English literature of the period. A third who lived in her time, and who had no mean poetic gift, was the Rev. Duncan Maccallum of Arisaig, the author of “Collath,” that other composition which passed for a time as a specimen of ancient poetry. But enough has been said to show the range of this derived and imitative activity.