[172] Burt, ii. 51.
[173] The Gartmore MS. is denounced as full of ignorant Lowland prejudice, by General Stewart of Garth.
[174] Burt, Appendix, ii. 357.
[175] We have another statement by Culloden: ‘From Perth to Inverness, and thence to the Western Sea, including the Western Islands, ... no part is in any degree cultivated, except some spots here and there in straths or glens, by the sides of rivers, brooks, or lakes, and on the sea-coast. The grounds that are cultivated yield small quantities of mean corns not sufficient to feed the inhabitants, who depend for their nourishment on milk, butter, cheese, &c., the product of their cattle.... Their habitations are the most miserable huts that ever were seen.’ Culloden Papers, p. 298.
[176] This is the house near Musselburgh, which the wicked Colonel Charteris lent to Culloden, who had defended him from a charge of rape. In one room (when I was a boy) you saw in the centre a great black blotch, and black marks as of footsteps tiptoeing out to the door. A gruesome room!
[177] Cumberland Papers, 1753.
[178] Antiquarian Notes, p. 207.
[179] Antiquarian Notes; compare pp. 126 and 207.
[180] Here is a formal rent from Burt (ii. 56):—
Donald Mac Oil vic ille Challum.