The Statistical Accounts for Sutherlandshire, 2nd_Account may be found: http://stat-acc-scot.edina.ac.uk/stat-acc-scot/stat-acc-scot.asp?session-id=0864e3cdc5c80c351707716b694e6182 The Rev James Campell, Minister writing in February, 1840 for the Parish of Kildonan alludes throughout II. CIVIL HISTORY (page 140) to Sir Robert Gordon's History of the Earls of Sutherland. The Rev states it 'the most authentic, of the general correctness of that remarkable local history,'. The feud between the Keith and the Gun clans is indexed page 142. The footnote at the bottom of the page attests to the Rev's thoroughness. 'The history of the clan during these early centuries, as collected from tradition, and partly borne out by detached narratives in Sir Robert Gordon' history, is replete with incidents, which, in the present age, have more of the character of wild romance than of reality, and exhibits, in many startling details, the ferocity and implacable fury which distinguished the feuds of the clans in the remote Highlands, * even down to near the close of the seventeenth century.' *Sir Robert Gordon, whose history was written in 1630, thus alludes to "the inveterat deldlie feud betuein the clan Gun and the Slaight-can-Aberigh," (a branch of the Mackays). He remarks: "The long, the many, the horrible encounters which happened between the two trybes, with the bloodshed and infinit spolls committed in every pairt of the diocy of Catteynes by them and their associats, are of so disordered and troublesome memorie," that he passes them over.---P.174. George Alexander MURRAY III Kalispell, Montana USA 59903-2176