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NOTES TO
CANTO FIRST. Note I. The heights of Uam-var, And round that cavern
where 'tis told A giant made his den of old. — St. I. p. 6. Ua-var, as the name is
pronounced, or more properly Uaighr mor, is a mountain to the north-east of the
village of Callender in Menteith, deriving its name, which signifies the great den,
or cavern, from a sort of retreat among the rocks on the south side, said, by
tradition, to have been the abode of a giant. In latter times, it was the refuge of
robbers and ...