26 REMINISCENCES OF THE LEWS. 



Lews and Harris — tlie decision of the boun- 

 daries. It was now drawing to its close. The 

 Dean of Faculty (afterwards Lord Colonsay) 

 and several of the Scotch lawyers concerned in 

 this suit — ^pending since the Deluge — had gone 

 round to Loch Raisort to mark the ground, 

 accompanied by the pointers-out of both 

 boundaries from the respective countries, and 

 by my friend. Captain Burnaby, and his 

 sappers, the Chamberlain, and a host of 

 people. 



A steamer had also been sent up to accom- 

 modate many of the party, and the said vessel 

 was well laden with good viands and liquors 

 for their creature comforts. And pleasant in- 

 deed were those Scotch lawyers — when were 

 they otherwise than capital company ? Lord 

 Colonsay to great legal knowledge added the 

 deepest insight into the good qualities of a 

 deerhound of any man I ever met ; and from 

 him I got a cross of his famous dog that was 

 the model for the hound that lies at Sir Walter 

 Scott's feet in the Memorial in Edinburgh. I 

 was younger then by many years, and had an 

 Ldsh story or two for them that tickled their 

 fancies, and a pleasant night we passed. There 

 were pipers, of course ; and how they danced, 

 despite all the anathemas of the Free Kirk ! 



