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228 the tie of property was broken yet the feeling of clanship remained entire. "Whatever was in the island," writes Johnson, "Sir Allan could demand, for the inhabitants were Macleanes; but having little they could not give us much." A curious scene described by Boswell bears witness to the strength of the devotion of these poor people.

The memory of the power so lately exercised throughout the Highlands by the chiefs was not soon forgotten. It was noticed so late as 1793, that in Scotland master was still, for the most part, the term used for landlord. As an instance of this it was mentioned that in a sermon preached in the High Church of Edinburgh in 1788, the minister thus described the late Earl of Kinnoul in relation to his tenants. Even after the abolition of the jurisdictions of the chiefs the powers left in the hands of the justices were very great. "An inferior judge in Scotland," wrote the historian of Edinburgh in the year 1779, "makes nothing of sentencing a man to whipping, pillory, banishment from the limits of his jurisdiction, and such other trifling punishments, without the idle formality of a jury."

In Iona, however, there was no need of threats. The poor people were devoted to their former chief. "He went," says Johnson, "to the headman of the island whom fame, but fame delights in amplifying, represents as worth no less than fifty pounds. He was, perhaps, proud enough of his guests, but ill prepared for