94 -SV. Kildafrom Without. 



was stilled for ever by a stone dropped on to her 

 head from above, as she stood, like Fitzjames, with 

 her back to a rock, defying the whole host of the 

 Irish. 



A curiously-shaped chambered beehive-hut, which 

 has puzzled more than one antiquary, and a spring 

 in St. Kilda, are still known as the " Dairy," and 

 "Well of the Amazon." 



The Soft-skinned Muiream is not the only peppery 

 lady whose name holds a prominent place in the 

 annals of St. Kilda. 



In these days of woman's rights and newspapers, it 

 is not easy to realise that only 150 years ago it could 

 have been possible for a man, in a conspicuous public 

 position, to deport a troublesome wife, and keep her 

 in banishment for years, without apparently any in- 

 convenient consequences to himself. 



But this is what Lord Grange, one of the most dis- 

 tinguished lawyers of his day in Scotland, with the 

 help of his infamous boon companion, the Lord 

 Lovat, who, after Culloden, atoned for many abomi- 

 nations on Tower Hill, actually did. 



Lady Grange had, by her own admission, a tongue 

 in her head. " There is no person," she pathetically 

 writes, " but has his faults," and, until adversity had 

 broken her spirits, was not, perhaps, disposed to be as 

 blind as a well-trained Eighteenth Century wife was 

 expected to be to a husband's irregularities. They 

 had agreed to separate ; and she had taken lodgings 

 in Edinburgh. What followed, is best told in her 

 own words, written,* " with a bad pin," from St. 



* The letter from which the extracts are taken is published 

 at length in the " Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of 

 Scotland." 



