7. A folio parchment, partly religious, partly medical. 8. A folio parchment MS. consisting of the Histories of Scotland and Ireland, much damaged. 9. A folio parchment medical MS., very old. 10. A folio parchment MS. Irish history and poetry. 11. A quarto parchment MS., very old. 12. A long duodecimo parchment MS. consisting of hymns and maxims. It is a very beautiful MS., and may be as old as the time of St Columba. 13. A duodecimo parchment MS. much damaged and illegible. 14. A duodecimo parchment MS. consisting of poetry, but not Ossianic. Hardly legible. 15. A duodecimo parchment MS. much injured by vermin. It consists of a miscellaneous collection of history and poetry. 16. A duodecimo parchment MS. in large beautiful letter, very old and difficult to be understood. 17. A folio parchment MS. consisting of the genealogies of the Macdonalds, Macniels, Macdougals, Maclauchlans, &c. All these MSS. are written in the old Gaelic character, and, with the exception of No. 2, have neither date nor name attached to them. Besides those enumerated, there are, it is believed, many ancient Gaelic MSS. existing in private libraries. The following are known:-- A Deed of Fosterage between Sir Norman Macleod of Bernera, and John Mackenzie, executed in the year 1640. This circumstance shows that the Gaelic language was in use in legal obligations at that period in the Highlands. This MS. was in the possession of the late Lord Bannatyne. A variety of parchment MSS. on medicine, in the Gaelic character, formerly in the possession of the late Dr Donald Smith. He was also possessed of a complete copy of the Emanuel MS. before mentioned, and of copies of many other MSS., which he made at different times from other MSS. Two paper MS. Gaelic grammars, in the same character, formerly in the possession of the late Dr Wright of Edinburgh. Two ancient parchment MSS. in the same character, formerly in the possession of the late Rev. James Maclagan, at Blair-Athole. Now in possession of his family. It is chiefly Irish history. A paper MS. written in the Roman character, in the possession of Mr Matheson of Fearnaig, Ross-shire. It is dated in 1688, and consists of songs and hymns by different persons, some by Carswell, Bishop of the Isles. There is reason to fear that this MS. has been lost. A paper MS. formerly in the possession of a Mr Simpson in Leith. The Lilium Medecinæ, a paper folio MS. written and translated by one of the Bethunes, the physicians of Skye, at the foot of Mount Peliop. It was given to the Antiquarian Society of London by the late Dr Macqueen of Kilmore, in Skye. Two treatises, one on astronomy, the other on medicine, written in the latter end of the thirteenth or beginning of the fourteenth century, formerly in the possession of Mr Astle. GAELIC AND IRISH MSS. IN PUBLIC LIBRARIES. IN THE ADVOCATES’ LIBRARY.