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expedition to the mountains, from which they 

 never returned. 



' On a search being made their dead bodies 

 were found in the bothy, some considerably 

 mangled, but some were not marked by any 

 wound. 



' It was visible that this had not been effected 

 by human agency : the bothy was torn from its 

 foundations' and scarcely a vestige left of it, and 

 one huge stone, which twelve men could not have 

 raised, was tossed to a considerabledistance. 



' On this event Scott's beautiful ballad of 

 " Glenfinlas " is said to have been founded.' 



As will be seen presently, Hogg, was wrong 

 about ' Glenfinlas ' ; the boatman was acquainted 

 w;ith a traditional version of that wild legend. I 

 fourid another at Rannoch. , i 



The Highland fairies are very Vampirish. The 

 Loch Awe boatman lives at a spot haunted by a 

 shadowy maiden. Her last appearance" was about 

 thirty years ago, Two yourig men were thrashing 

 corn one morning, when the joint of the flail broke. 

 The owner " went to Larichban and entered an 



