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reconnoitre. It was daylight, but the sun was not up.* Lord George, looking 

 earnestly about him, observed a fold-dike, or wall of turf, which had been 

 begun as a fence for cattle, but left unfinished. He ordered his men to follow, 

 and draw up behind the dike, but at such a distance from one another that they 

 might make a great show, having the colours of both regiments flying in front. 

 He then gave orders to the pipers for he had with him the pipers both of the 

 Athol men and the Macphersons to keep their eyes fixed on the road from 

 Blair, and the moment they saw the soldiers appear, to strike up with all their 

 bagpipes at once. It happened that Agnew's regiments came in sight just 

 as the sun rose ; and that instant the pipers began to play one of their most 

 shrill and rousing pibrochs. Lord George and his Highlanders, both officers 

 and men, whilst drawing their swords, brandished them about their heads. Sir 

 Andrew, after gazing awhile at this spectacle, ordered his men to the right 

 about, and without farther question marched back to the Castle of Blair. Lord 

 George kept his post till several of his parties came in, and then marching 

 forward with about three hundred, laid siege to the castle. 



INVERNESS-SHIRE. 



" Land of the pibroch and the plaid ; 

 Land of the henchman and the raid ; 

 Land of the brave, the fair, the good." THE RECESS. 



" Quos ille timorum 



Maximus haud urget lethi metus : hide ruendi 

 In ferrum mens prona viris, aninTaeque capaces 

 Mortis." LUCAN. 



THE county of Inverness is the most extensive in Scotland, and, like that 

 we have just left, peculiarly rich in all that can interest the mind, or waken 

 the imagination of strangers. The expanse and character of its lakes the 

 wild sublimity of its mountains its pastoral hills, fertile valleys, and waving 

 forests the venerable monuments of religion the mouldering fastnesses of its 

 Celtic chiefs the gloom of its Alpine passes, and the smiling landscapes that 

 encircle its lakes all that is most effective in painting, or famous in the page 



* Home. Anderson. Stewart's Sketches, Statistics of the County. 



