it held the poffeffion and command, Teems to have been Mn exed by the Crow 
sfrizfc s? “ r a gEvS * 
David II. and in <he end of that century was m the poffeffion of th 
Iluntly . 
Its value, as a purchafc, being liquidated in the reign of Jm« VI. 
fettled tenure, it became the hereditary property of the Castle Grant I . 
The enclofures, which are forming boundaries to the arable lands. ancP^ 
Grounds of Glen -Ur quh art, and the extenfive plantations which are carrying ^ 
fhe declivities of the mountains by Sir James Grant, point out to the tra ^ b e 
it raid be Hill confidered as a valuable eftate, where expence and tafte can 
employed to advantage. 
In the thirteenth century, when the Evangelical eftablilhments were P ^ 
into every cultivated province, “ a chapel was dedicated to the Holy V 1 S 
« the banks of Loch-nefs, among feme of the pleafmt fields of Glen-L i0 
« Thofe who miniftered at the altar, or were font from thence into thc tft 
«< inftrucfc the ignorant in the doctrine of the Crops, had lands devo ^ 
wh ich they cultivated with fltill, and made capable of large produce. .. 
The prefent kirk and glebe are the remains of thefe ; and by means 
confolations of the fame religion, though under a different foim, fr0t n ff 
ftered , and many who dwell in the remoter parts of the mountains con m 
to receive them. It had often been an idle obfervation, made with tow* ^ 
Scotland, « That wherever a parfonage was eftabhfhed, there we : mig. t e ‘ s o* 
« foine of the moll luxurious fields of the country. Therefore \ Q 
fa c-el y remarked, “ That if the Minifters of Religion had it m then P p0 t ‘ 
«°thl fituation of their dwellings, it would have been abundantly fi m | ' » 
« bave fixed their refidence amid die richeft lands and moll pleafing lanch P 
