Miss McLeod's Reel - Intermediate Fiddle Lesson

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Miss McLeod's Reel according to Traditional Tune Archive:
A universal favorite in the British Isles and North America. Apparently the tune was first printed in Nathaniel Gow's Fifth Collection of Strathspey Reels of 1809 (p. 36), with the note "An original Isle of Skye Reel. Communicated by Mr. McLeod (of Raasay)." It is possible that the “Miss McLeod” referred to was one or both of MacLeod of Raasay’s sisters. These sisters raised their niece, the Countess of Loudoun, Flora Charlotte Campbell, after the death of her mother and suicide of her father. The family maintained a residence on St. John’s Street, Edinburgh, which Chambers and Wallace (Life and Works of Robert Burns, 1896) refer to in this passage:
Possibly Burns was introduced to the (MacLeod) family by Gavin Hamilton who was factor of the Loudoun estates. A Perthshire lady used to tell how she met Burns at an evening-party in the house of MacLeod of Raasay at the St. John Street, where he seemed to be on easy terms. ‘He had been on the previous night to a ball in Dunn’s Rooms (now the National Bank, St. Andrew Square) and he spoke in high terms of the beauty of the ladies, as well as the witchery of the music. His manner, however, was not prepossessing-scarcely manly or natural. It seemed as if he affected a rusticity or landertness, so that when he said the music was “bonie, bonie,” he spoke almost like a child.’ [p. 137]