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considering his word was pledged, would not allow the 

 slayer of his own son to be harmed, and restored 

 young Lamond to his people unhurt, an act for which 

 the name of Alexander Macgregor of Glenstrae has 

 rightly been handed down to posterity as a typical 

 example of a gallant Highlander's unswerving deter- 

 mination to keep his plighted troth at all hazards. 

 Some sixty years later there appeared on the scene 

 a descendant of this Alexander, the celebrated " Rob 

 Roy," but I cannot discover that he was ever in the 

 Black Mount, and indeed his energies always appear 

 to have been turned more to his neighbours' cattle 

 than to their deer. 



CONAGLEN BY ARDGOUR. 



This small forest, belonging to the Earl of Morton, 

 extends to between ten and eleven thousand acres, 

 with a highest altitude of 2,300 feet. It is situated 

 near the head of Loch Linnhe on the western shore 

 and due south of Loch Eil. No authentic information 

 has been obtainable. 



