that the Scottish counter-part of America's legendary giant, Paul Bunyan, is Fionn MacCumhail (Finn MacCoul), who with his band of giants engaged in forays for plunder on land and sea in Scotland's ancient ages? Now, it is said, he sleeps with his men upon the mountains above Glencoe, and someday, when Scotland is in need, he will awaken, sound his great hunting horn, and rouse his followers to her defense.

 that Fionn MacCumhail is believed to have been the progenitor of the great and powerful Clan MacDonald?

 that Fingal's Cave, named for Fionn MacCumhail, on the island of Staffa, was the inspiration for Felix Mendelssohn's Fingal's Cave Overture? The impressive cave is 66 feet high and 220 feet deep, and must be entered by boat. Flanking the opening are masses of great organ-pipe-like basalt formations which are of much interest to geologists and tourists, alike.

 that the "Giant's Causeway" on the Northeastern coast of Ireland, composed of the same type hexagonal basalt formations as on the island of Staffa, and jutting 500 feet into the North Channel, is said to have been built by Fionn MacCumbail and his giants to connect Scotland and Ireland, which also lays claim to Fionn MacCumbail?

 that Ossian's Cave, high up on Aonach Dubh, one of the "Three Sisters" peaks above Glencoe, although almost inaccessible, is said to be the retreat where the 3rd Century Gaelic poet, Ossian, son of Fionn, composed his heroic Celtic-Gaelic verse? James MacPherson, between 1760 and 1763, claimed to have discovered and translated some of Ossian's epic poems of great length. This claim caused serious controversy as to whether the translations were authentic or a clever forgery. in either case, it proved that James MacPherson was a man of immense literary stature; and, regardless of the source, it brought into focus the value of preserving old Celtic and Gaelic manuscripts, and songs and stories by word-of-mouth.

 that the members of the Committee of the Highland Society, and those literary and professional individuals whom they contacted for opinions and evidence concerning the translations of the poems of Ossian published by James MacPherson, generally verified their authenticity? MacPherson, however, highly indignant, and doubtless crushed, over the doubts raised by scoffers at his Gaelic translations of the ancient Bardic minstrelsy, refused to defend himself and left the country.

 that the first written record we have which refers to the Loch Ness Monster is a story in The Life of St. Columba by St. Adamnan, 9th Abbot of Iona, in 680 A.D.? A monster in the River Ness, which flows from Loch Ness 6 miles to the Moray Firth, having just previously killed a swimmer, was pursuing another, when St. Columba, the 6th Century Celtic missionary-monk who had founded the Christian community on Iona, appeared on the scene. He commanded the monster to turn back; this it did, and sank from sight. Because of this miracle, St. Adamnan tells us, many of the heathen Druid-worshiping Picts were won to Christianity.

 that Loch Morar, 1080 feet deep, is also believed to have harboured a monster for many years? Known as Mhorag (pronounced Vorag), an ancient legend claims that it always appears to some member of Clan MacDonnell of Morar, before a death in that family.

 that water-bulls and water-horses were among other legendary creatures of Scottish lore? Water-bulls have been described as being relatively harmless except for eating up the near-by residents' crops at night; as being twice the size of the land bulls, and having huge horns, flaming nostrils, and small fish-teeth, which must have made it difficult for them to eat the crops! They were also believed to be rather shy, living peaceably in the waters of their home-lochs.

 that water-horses were believed to have the ability to assume the forms of handsome young men at times, and go courting bonnie lasses on land?

 that the Scottish people of old were very superstitious, some of their beliefs having probably been handed down from ancient Druidism; and that one of the prayers of their Christian litany went something like this:

"Frae witches and warlocks, and worrilows;
Frae ghoulies, and ghosties, and long-leggedty beasties;
And frae things that go "bump" in the night,
Guid Lord, deliver us!"?

 that the Scottish people's explanation of their belief in the existence of fairies is that millenniums ago the Gates of Heaven stood wide so that the angels could come and go at will, and so that men could catch glimpses of their Heavenly Home; but when Lucifer, the "Proud Angel," revolted and was banished with his followers to Hell, the Gates of Heaven were closed, those who had been undecided, hesitating in their choice, and were still outside, had no place to go but to fly into holes in the ground on Earth? The small mounds and hillocks seen about Scotland are the "duns" where the "Little People" live. They are believed to be harmless, though sometimes mischievous if their duns are disturbed or if they are wronged.

 that the story of Duncan Campbell of Inverawe, which had its beginning in Scotland and its ending in America, is one of the most reputably authenticated ghost stories ever recorded? Toward the middle of the 18th Century, Duncan Campbell, Laird of Inverawe, sat alone one night in his ancient castle on the banks of the River Awe at the foot of Ben Cruachan in the wild western Highlands of Scotland. Responding to a sudden pounding at the gate, he found there a stranger, breathless, bloody, and in disarray, who begged sanctuary from pursuers who were seeking his life after he had slain an unnamed man in a recent fight. The Laird agreed and took the demanded oath: "Swear on your dirk!" to protect and keep silence. Shortly after concealing the fugitive, Campbell was roused by the clamor of the pursuers, who informed him that it was his own cousin, Donald, who had been murdered. Remaining loyal to his oath, Campbell sent them, unsuspecting, on their way, and retired uneasily to his bed. Awakening suddenly during the night, he saw with horror the misty, but unmistakable likeness of his cousin Donald beside his bed. "Inverawe! Inverawe!" it hailed him in hollow tones, "Blood has been shed! Shield not the murderer!" At daybreak he hurried to the fugitive, telling him he must leave the premises at once. "You have sworn on your dirk!" challenged the now unwelcome guest. Inverawe, still unwilling to stoop to oath breaking, then escorted the refugee to a cave on the slopes of Ben Cruachan for safety. That night the spector returned with the same pronouncement, and on the following morning the cave was found empty. Campbell's relief was short-lived, for the ghost returned again that night, less threatening, but with a cryptic message: "Farewell, Inverawe! Farewell! Until we meet at TI CON DER 0 GA!" The strange-sounding name dwelt with the Laird as he often repeated the tale, hoping for a clue. During the subsequent years he joined the 42nd Highland Regiment, the Black Watch, rapidly advancing in rank until he was its Major when it was ordered to America to aid the Colonies in the French and Indian War. Here, with a shock, he heard the strange name again; this time from human lips when the Regiment was ordered to proceed to Fort Ticonderoga! His brother officers, knowing the strange story, conspired to allay his dread by assuring him, when they had reached their destination, that it was not Fort Ticonderoga, but Fort George. In the morning Major Campbell appeared both determined and resigned. "He came to me last night," he announced. "This is Ticonderoga! Today I die." In the ensuing Battle, famous in American History and in the Annals of the Black Watch, Major Duncan Campbell received only an arm wound, but in those days of primitive medicine and antisepsis, infection was almost inevitable. Major Duncan Campbell of Inverawe, at the age of 55, died July 17, 1758, after amputation of his arm, 9 days after the Battle of Ticonderoga. He rests not far from the battlefield in the Union Cemetery between Fort Edward and Hudson Falls.