The Prophecies of the Brahan Seer. By Alexander Mackenzie. (Eneas
Mackay, Stirling, N.B.)—The curious in the matter of prophecy and second-sight may read this book to advantage. The "Brahan Seer " was a certain " Coinneach Odhar " of Uig in the Lews, and flourished in the first half of the seventeenth century. " Ships shall sail round the back of Tomnahurich Hill (near Inver- ness)" was one of his predictions (fulfilled by the Caledonian Canal) ; but his fame chiefly rests on the prediction of the fall of the Sea- forths, once the owners of the Lews. Brahan Castle is now almost all that remains to them. But nothing in the stories of second-sight can beat Lord Lorne's strange narrative of how a wise woman of Perthshire told how the corpse of a man who had been drowned in Loch Lomond (which she had never seen) would be found.
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