Note 275 — Chapter VI · THE TRIBE IN SCOTLAND.
Reading edition
Information derived from the late Colonel Macdonell of Glengarry, who had an accurate knowledge of Highland traditions. In the Stat. Acc. of Saddel it is stated that the average stock of a merk land is 4 horses, 12 milch cows with their followers, and 40 sheep with theirs (vol. xii. p. 477).