354 NETHER LOCHABER, 



And then -the music ceased, and they knew that the poor piper had 

 been torn to pieces by the wolves. Such is something like the 

 story I used to hear in connection with the big cave in Mull and 

 the well-known lament, more than fifty years ago." 



The cave referred to is on the estate of Lochbuy. So far as it 

 has been explored, its length is over 500 feet, with a breadth of 

 some 25 feet, and a height of 40. It is proper to say that the 

 people of Skye claim the whole story as belonging to their island. 

 The piper was a Macrimmon ; the cave is pointed out near 

 Dunvegan, and the story of the wolves and the piper's sad fate 

 is just as likely to be true of the one island as of the other. Our 

 own opinion is, that so far as there is any truth in the story, it must 

 be located in Skye rather than in Mull, although our friends in 

 the latter island will perhaps be angry with us for saying so. 



