I promised an acquaintance on the Scots Origins list that I would try to find out more about MacDonald's Land in Inveraray, where some of his ancestors lived in the 19th century. I had the feeling that this would be one of those tenement-type properties that seem to hang around West Highland towns like a bad smell- Campbelltown(is this the correct spelling?) is a case in point- why, with all that space, would anybody build Partick-type tenements in such a beautiful spot? Sorry....rant over....return to question at hand. Does anybody know how or where we can discover the mystery of MacDonald's Land? Would that not seem to be a very unlikely name with the Campbell Dukes just up the road? Answer on one side of a page only to..... Rosemary P.S. Why is Inveraray such an unlovable little place? I have tried really, really hard to like it....Lochgilphead I find very pleasant....but Inveraray gives me a deep, deep feeling of depression every time I pass through it....and the pubs are not very nice....and the Jail is just a rip-off....could this be some kind of ancestral feeling of doom? Although I love the Loch Fyne Oyster Bar and that woodland place next door to it and the gardens round the other side of Loch Fyne.......we once spent hours and hours...which in an other parallel universe would have translated into years and years ...in Inveraray after a car crash....seriously bad karma...well, it was the sixties...It is the only place in Argyll which sends out bad vibrations...I tend to accelerate through it with my Ivan Drever CD on full blast...and a tree in that area once attacked my dog and impaled a branch in her chest and I had to take her to a vet in Lochgilphead...I think I feel an attack of the Inveraray vapours coming on..... ===== Nkosi sikelel, Africa, Ishe komborera Africa, God bless Africa. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com