[{160}] In every version of the story that I have heard or read Ticonderoga is called St. Louis, and Inverawe was ignorant of its other name. Yet in all the histories of the war that I have seen, the only name given to the place is Ticonderoga. There is no mention of its having a French name. Even if Inverawe knew the fort they were to storm was called Ticonderoga, he cannot have known it when the ghost appeared to him in Scotland. At that time there was not even a fort at Ticonderoga, as the French only erected it in 1756. Inverawe had told his story to friends in Scotland before the war broke out in America, so even if in 1758 he did know the real name of the fort that the expedition was directed against, I don’t see that it lessens the interest of the story.—E. A. C.
The French really called the place Fort Carillon, which disguised the native name Ticonderoga. See Memoirs of the Chevalier Johnstone.—A. L.
[{162}] Abercromby’s force consisted of the 27th, 42nd, 44th, 46th, 55th, and battalions of the 60th Royal Americans, with about 9000 Provincials and a train of artillery. The assault, however, took place before the guns could come up, matters having been hastened by the information that M. de Lévy was approaching with 3000 French troops to relieve Ticonderoga garrison.
[{177a}] I know one inveterate ghost produced in an ancient Scottish house by these appliances.—A. L.
[{177b}] Such events are common enough in old tales of haunted houses.
[{177c}] This lady was well known to my friends and to Dr. Ferrier. I also have had the honour to make her acquaintance.
[{179}] Apparently on Thursday morning really.
[{182}] She gave, not for publication, the other real names, here altered to pseudonyms.
[{186}] Phantasms, ii., 202.
[{188a}] Maspero, Etudes Egyptiennes, i., fascic. 2.