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being severely wounded, owed his life to the kindness 

 of one Macdonald, of the Glenmoriston race of Mac 

 lain Chaoil, who carried him on his back off the 

 battle-field. For this service the Marquis was so 

 grateful that he inscribed over the gate of his castle 

 the words, " Cha bhi Mac Iain Chaoil a mach, agus 

 Gordonach a stigh," " A Mac Iain Chaoil shall not 

 be without and a Gordon within." 



Also in this forest, close to the public highway, there 

 is still to be seen the cairn that marks the spot where 

 the gallant young Roderick Mackenzie fell. The son 

 of an Edinburgh jeweller, he took up the cause of 

 the Stuarts, and, after Culloden, was hiding on the 

 lands of Caennocroc, when he was surprised by a 

 party of the king's soldiers, and bearing some personal 

 resemblance to Prince Charles, he was at once shot 

 down in order that they might gain the .£30,000 

 reward that was placed on the Prince's head. This 

 devoted adherent made no attempt to deceive the 

 soldiers, and drawing his sword, refused to surrender 

 alive, and expired exclaiming : " You have murdered 



