(liiL)  ;  the  Dean  of  Lismore's  (xxxvii.)  ;  that
known  as  "  Kmanuel  "  (xlvi. )  ;  and  MS.  No.  xl.
A  high  antiquity  is  in  most  cases  claimed  for
these  documents,  and  it  is  t<)  be  feared  they  were
not  always  read.  The  eras  of  the  various  pieces
constituting  MS.  xl.  are  given  as  rangingfrom  the
tenth  or  eleventh  to  thethirteenth  and  fourteenth
centuries.  Now  the  colophon  to  one  of  these
sheets  bears  that  it  was  written  at  "Minaird"
in  the  year  1538.  Dr  Smith  died  "  on  the  very
day  (22d  May  1805)  when  the  last  of  his  labours
in  its  [the  reporting  Committee's]  service,  the
concluding  sheet  of  this  appendix,  issued  from
the  press."

The  Rev.  Donald  Mackintosh  is  designated  by
himself  in  his  will  as  "a  priest  of  the  Old
Scots  Episcopal  Church,  and  last  of  the  non-
jurant  clergy  in  Scotland."  He  came  to  Edin-
burgh as  a  young  man,  and  for  a  time  acted  aa
one  of  Peter  Williamson's  "  Penny  Post  "  men.
In  1785  he  published  the  first  collection  of
Gaelic  Proverbs,  and  was  in  the  same  year
appointed  "  Clerk  for  the  Gaelic  Language  "
to  the  Society  of  Antiquaries  of  Scotland.  Sub-
sequently in  1801  he  received  the  appointment
of  "  Keeper  of  the  Gaelic  MSS.  of  the  Highland
Society  of  Scotland."  In  this  latter  capacity  he
made  the  carefully  prepared  catalogues  of  MSS.
printed  in  the  1807  edition  of  Ossiari's  Poems
(Vol.  HI.,  pp.  660-673)  and  copious  transcripts
from  MSS.  ixxiv.  and  xxxvL..  which  are  pre-
served in  the  .-\dvocates'  Library.  Mr  Mackin-
tosh died  in  1808.
