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—It;;!Xotc.s on Lraelic Grainuuir and Urthoyrdjiht/. 157antecedent beiug the same in Loth cases !is scarcely necessaryto notice that, in the above examples, the relative is used as aconjunction. Cf. the last quotation from Stewart's Grammar,and also p. 94 of the same work."Esan." (S before or after a slender vowel is pronounced inGaelic like sh in shoiv, but before or after a broad vowel like sin sort. It is irregular, therefore, in mod. Gaelic, to have s, inthe same word, preceded by a slender and followed by a broadvowel, and vice versa.In " esan," therefore, the pronoun e shouldbe separated by a hyphen from the emphatic particle -sun. Inaccordance with the rule of pronunciation now referred to, thedemonstrative pronouns .so (this) and sud (yonder, that there)should be written seo and siud as the modern forms of seo andsiiit, which are found in the ancient language alongside of so andSlit. In these pronouns, s is invariably pronounced like sh byScottish Highlanders.{To hi'(ontiniied.)CUMHA MHIC-CRIOMTHAINN.(Macrimmon's Lament.)Bratach bhuadhail Mhic-Leoid o'n tur mhor a' lasadh,'S luchd-iomramh nan ramh greasadh bharc thar a' ghlas-chuan;Bogha, sgiath, 's claidheamh mor, 's tuagh gu leou, aii-m nanfleasgach,'S Mae-Criomthainn cluich cuairt, " Soraidh bhu.in do Dhun-Bheagain."Slan leis gach creig ard ris 'bh-'eil gkirich ard-thonnon,Slan leis gach gleann fas 'san dean crac-dhaimh an langanEilein Sgiathanaich aigh! slan led' bheanntaibh 's guirm' firich,Tillidh, dh'flieudtadh, Mac-Leoid, ach cha bheo do Mhac-Criomthainn.Soraidh bhuan do'n gheal-cheo, a tha comhdachadh Chuilinn !Slan leis gach blath-shuil, 'th'air an Dun 's iad a' tuireadhSoraidh bhuan do'n luchd-ciuil, 's trie 'chuir sunnd orm istiomaSheol Mac-Criomthainn thar sail, is gu brath cha till tuilleadh.Nuallan allt' na plob-mhoir a' cluich marbh-rainn an fhilidh,Agus dearbh-bhrat a' bhais mar fhalluing aig' uime