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landlord presenting a stirrup-cup to his guests, for which no reckon- 

 ing was charged. 



Note XXV. 



Carlisle-Mount Kincarn O'Neal p. 194, 195. 

 Read Cairn o' Mount and Kincardine O'Neale. 



Note XXVI. 



Reven in Badenoch. P. 196. 

 Read, Ruthven in Badenoch, a small Highland village. 



Note XXVII. 

 Art was both engine and engineer, to invite this ship into this solitary 



lough. P. 197. 



The curious account which the author gives of transporting a 

 vessel to Loch-Ness, for the purpose of annoying the Highlanders 

 who continued to defend their mountains long after the low coun- 

 try was subjected by Cromwell, was an instance, amongst many, of the 

 determined perseverance, as well as the ingenuity, of the republican 

 commanders. The nature of the war betwixt them and the High- 

 landers may be judged of, by perusing the Memoirs of Sir Ewen Ca- 

 meron of Lochiel, printed in the first volume of Pennant's Tour. 

 Art has, by means of the Caledonian Canal, now rendered Loch- 

 Ness a navigable, or, according to the author's favourite phrase, a 

 portable lake. 



Note XXVIII. 



The earth in Ross has an antipathy against rats. P. 207. 

 The same was anciently believed of various districts. The earth of 

 Liddesdale, for example, in Roxburghshire, was formerly sent for 

 from a considerable distance to lay the floors of barns withal. Unfor- 

 tunately, it was only useful against the small black rat, which is the 

 original Scottish breed, and is now almost extinct. The great grey 

 rat, which, as old Jacobites malignantly observed, came in at the 

 Hanover accession, has overrun the privileged districts, as well as 

 every other in Scotland, and is understood to have banished or de- 

 stroyed the original breed. The black rat lives on land exclusively, 

 the grey is amphibious. 



