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grazings of Benevrich, in token of which he hurled 

 his sword into the loch, "to remain for ever as 

 an acknowledgment of this compact." This done, 

 each side having fraternized, departed to their homes 

 with mutual good wishes. In the year 1826 this 

 very sword, or all that remained of it, was picked 

 out of the lake in a season of great drought, by the 

 son of the Caimb herd, who took it to a collector 

 of curiosities, the Rev. Dr. Ross of Kilmonivaig. 

 The story, however, got wind, and presently the 

 reverend gentleman was waited on by twelve stout 

 Lochaber men, who demanded back the sword as 

 a relic which no one had a right to remove, and 

 having obtained it, the remains of the old weapon, 

 of which nothing remained but the basket hilt and 

 a few inches of rusty blade, were once more deposited 

 in the loch with great solemnity. 



Prince Charles Edward, when making his way 

 from Lochaber to shelter in the Cage of Ben 

 Alder with Cluny Macpherson, passed a few days 

 in Corrour, in a bothy on a hill called Mealaneach ; 



