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THE GENEALOGIE OF THE CAMPBELLS 85
"< called Coline na Sreinge that is of the String, because in a 21. Coime
fight with mcCoul of Lorn in the mountain betwixt Lochow morenas' n s.
and Lorn called the String x after he had put the mcCouls
to flight throw his eager persuing the chase and forcing a
pass called the a-dhearg^ that is to say the red foord he was
unfortunatly killed and a heap of stones (called in Irish a
Cairn) stands near that place as a monument of it to this
day. 2 This Coline More na Sreinge maried Janet daughter his manage.
to Sir John Sinclair 3 being descended of a very noble
blood, and of her he had tuo sons Sir Neill and Archibald
called in Irish Gillespig, others reckons a third son
called Dugald the parson of whom they reckon the
claim aphersons who are a numerous strong clann in mcphersons.
Badeanoch. 4 However of this Coline more the Camp-
bells are called Claimchallen and their Chief is called
Calein More that is the great mcCallen or the son of
A Callen the great. 5
Sir Neill his son was the first who was called mcCallen 22. Sir Neill.
More from his father's name, this was a most famous and
valiant knight being one of these who were called King-
Robert the Bruce his worthies ;
he keeped Lochow against his couradge
and valou
mcphaden who came against him with a great host cloathed
with a Commission from the great King Edward of England,
1
' A ridge of mountains betwixt Loch Avich near the middle of Lochow and /
the head of Glenscammadill or Gleneuchar in Lorn, where the said Colin Mor
in a fight with John Baucheach MacCoull. i.e. Lame John Macdougall, chief of
the Macdougalls ' was killed (MS. B). There is also a String in Arran.
8 MS. B adds : ' He was buried at Kilchrennan on Lochow side.'
:;
Sir John Sinclair of Dunglass, according to MS. B.
4 This, of course, is nonsense. The Macphersons or clan Vurich are said to
be sprung from a parson of Kingussie, and are certainly not Campbells. There
was, however, a small Campbell sept of Macpherson, vide post, p. 139, note 1.
5 How greatly Cailein Mor had impressed himself on the popular imag-
ination appears from a curious passage in John Major's History of Greater
Britain (Scot. Hist. Soc. , vol. x. p. 37): 'There is also the island of
Argadia, belonging to the Earl of Argadia, which we call Argyle, thirty leagues
in length. There the people swear by the hand of Callum More, just as in old
times the Egyptians used to swear by the health of Pharaoh.' In the first
edition published at Paris in 1521 the words are 'per manum Alani Magni,' as
if Major had thought that Argyll's patronymic was Mac-Ailein More, and, there-
fore, that the eponymous was not Cailein but Alan.