Google Analytics error…

I just got the Google Analytics info from them and pasted the entire code into the tracking code window on the Highend General Settings page.The code I pasted there is

<!– Global site tag (gtag.js) – Google Analytics –>
<script async src=”https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=UA-*********-1″></script&gt;
<script>
window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || [];
function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);}
gtag(‘js’, new Date());

gtag(‘config’, ‘UA-*********-1’);
</script>

(I just starred out the account #’s there so it would be no big deal. The actual numbers are in the code pasted in)

The problem is, when I pasted that in, I got an error on the first line. The error reads…

Expected an identifier and instead saw ‘<!’
Cannot read property ‘identifier’ of undefined

Not a clue as to what this means since this is the only code I can get from google and the theme instructions say to paste in the entire code. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!