28 A HUNDRED YEARS IN THE HIGHLANDS 



had not been at Culloden, although some of his people 

 had, thought he was quite as well ashore among his 

 friends, so sent his compliments to his inviter, regretting 

 he could not accept his invitation, as he had friends to 

 dine with him on the top of Creag a Chait (the Cat's Rock), 

 where he hoped the Captain would join them. The 

 reply was a broadside against the Tigh Dige as the ship 

 sailed off, and I can remember seeing one of the cannon- 

 balls sticking half out of the house gable next to the sea, 

 apparently an 18-pound shot. Had it hit a few feet lower 

 it might have broken into a recess in the thickness of 

 the gable, the admittance to which was by raising the 

 floor of a wall-press in the room above, although this 

 had been forgotten till masons cutting an opening for a 

 gable door to the kitchen broke into the recess, where 

 many swords and guns were found. Then it was 

 recollected that Eraser of Foyers was long concealed 

 by our ancestor, and of course in this black hole.'' 



