were pofted near him to make a great fhout, which being feconded by those who stood on the right and left, run quickly through the whole army, and was returned by the enemy. But the noife of the mufquets and cannon, with the echoing of the hills, made the Highlanders fancy that their fhouts were much louder and brifker than that of the enemy; and Lochiel cried out, "Gentlemen, take courage, the day is ours: I am the oldest commander in the army, and have always obferved fomething ominous and fatal in fuch a dull, hollow, and feeble noife as the enemy made in their fhout, which prognofticates that they are all doomed to die by our hands this night; whereas ours was brifk, lively, and strong, and fhews we have vigour and courage." Thefe words, fpreading quickly through the army, animated the troops in a strange manner. The event justified the prediction: the Highlanders obtained a complete victory. The battle was fought 1689. Lochiel continued for fome time with that army; but being diffatisfied with the conduct of Cannon and fome of the principal officers, retired to Lochaber, leaving his fon in his place during the rest of the campaign.

When terms of fubmiffion were offered by King William to the outstanding chiefs, though many were glad to accept of them, yet Lochiel and a few others were determined to stand out, until they had King James's permiffion, which was at last obtained, and only a few days before King William's indemnity expired.

There is nothing elfe memorable, in the publick way, in the life of Sir Ewen Cameron. He outlived himself, becoming a fecond child, even rocked in a cradle; fo much were the faculties of his mind, and the members of his body, impaired. He died A.D. 1718.

APPENDIX.-NUMBER VII.

Of the Maffacre of the Colquhouns.

IN the Baronage of Scotland, by Sir Robert Douglas, it appears that in the years 159+ and 1595, the clan of M'Gregors with fome of their lawless neighbours, came down upon the low country of Dumbartonshire, and committed vaft outrages and depredations, especially upon the territories of the Colquhouns.

In 1602 Humphry Colquhoun raifed his vaffals and followers to oppofe them, and was joined by many of the gentlemen in the neighbourhood. Both parties met in Glenfrone, where a bloody conflict enfued. They fought with great obftinacy till night parted them, and many brave men were killed on both fides, but the Colquhouns appear to have been worsted. The Laird of Colquhoun escaped, and retired to a ftrongcastle; but was closely pursued by a party of the enemy; they broke into the castle, and found him in a vault, where they inftantly put him to death with many circumftances of cruelty. In the month of February it was that this Humphry Colquhoun was flain; at which time the young noblemen and gentlemen who were at fchool at Dumbarton came as fpectators to fee the battle of Glenfrone, but were not fuffered to approach near the danger, but were fhut up in a barn by the Colquhouns for safety. The M'Gregors prevailing, are faid afterwards to have barbarously put them all to death.

This is the account given by the hiftorian of the family of Lufs, but Mr. Buchanan * afferts that the Laird of Lufs escaped from the battle, and was afterwards killed in Benachra Castle by the M'Farlanes, through influence of a certain nobleman whom Lufs had difobliged.

Surnames of clans, p. 148.

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Let these facts ftand as related by the partizans of each houfe, but from the various acts of council, and the great feverity of them, and by the frequent confirmation of them by acts of parliament for near fixty years afterwards, under different princes and different influences, the neceflity of the fuppreffion of this unhappy clan, for the common good, is fully evinced.

The humanity of the prefent legislature did the last year repeal thefe fanguinary acts; alledging, that the caufes inductive of them for fuppreffing the name of Gregour or M'Gregour, are now little known and have long ceafed.

The ancient names of places marked R. C. are borrowed from the late Dr. Stukeley's account of Richard of Cirencester, with his ancient Map of Roman Britain and the Itinerary thereof, publifhed in 1747. The reft from Mr. Horfley's remarks on Ptolemy, Antonine's Itinerary, Notitia imperii, and Ravennatis Britanniæ Chorographia.

A TOUR

A TOUR IN SCOTLAND, AND VOYAGE TO THE HEBRIDES IN 1772.

By THOMAS PENNANT.

Dear Sir,

TO SIR JOSEPH BANKS, BARONET.

I THINK myself so much indebted to you, for making me the vehicle for conveying to the public the rich discovery of your last voyage, that I cannot dispense with this addrefs, the ufual tribute on fuch occafions. You took from me all temptation of envying your fuperior good fortune, by the liberal declaration you made that the Hebrides were my ground, and yourself, as you pleasantly expreffed it, but an interloper. May I meet with fuch, in all my adventures!

Without leffening your merit, let me fay that no one has lefs reason to be sparing of his stores of knowledge. Few poffefs fo large a fhare: you enjoy it without oftentation; and with a facility of communication, the refult of natural endowments joined with an immenfity of obfervation, collected in parts of the world, before, either of doubtful existence, or totally unknown. You have enriched yourself with the treasures of the globe, by a circumnavigation, founded on the most liberal and scientific principles.

The fixteenth century received luftre from the numbers of generous volunteers of rank and fortune, who, diftinguifhing themfelves by the contempt of riches, eafe, and luxury, made the most hazardous voyages, like yourself, animated by the love of true glory.

In reward, the name of Banks will ever exift with thofe of Clifford, Raleigh and Willoughby, on the rolls of fame, celebrated inftances of great and enterprizing spirits: and the arctic Solander must remain a fine proof that no climate can prevent the feeds of knowledge from vegetating in the breast of innate ability.

You have had juftly a full triumph decreed to you by your country. May your laurels for ever remain unblighted! and if she has deigned to twine for me a civic wreath, return to me the fame good wish.

I am, with every due acknowlegement,

Dear Sir, your obliged, and most obedient humble Servant,
THOMAS PENNANT,

Downing.

ADVERTISEMENT.

THIS journey was undertaken in the fummer of 1772, in order to render more complete my preceding tour; and to allay that fpecies of reftlefsnefs that infects many minds, on leaving any attempt unfinished. Confcious of my deficiency in feveral refpects, I prevailed on two gentlemen to favour me with their company, and to fupply by their knowledge what I found wanting in myfelf.

To the Rev. Mr. John Lightfoot, lecturer of Uxbridge, I am obliged for all the botanical remarks fcattered over the following pages. But it gives me great pleasure to fay that he means to extend his favours, by foon giving to the public a Flora Scotica, an ample enumeration and hiftory of the plants, obferved by him in the feveral places we vifited. To Mr. Lightfoot, I muft join in my acknowledgements, the Rev. Mr. John Stuart of Killin, for a variety of hints, relating to cuftoms of the natives of the

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