[247] I am indebted to a MS. account of Cameron of Lochiel for the most interesting facts in the following memoir. It was communicated to me by R. Chambers, Esq., and was written by Mrs. Grant of Laggan. In her letters unpublished, she declares the source of her information to have been some papers in the possession of a Scotch clergyman, "which," says Mrs. Grant, "it appears he did not give to John Home, who would scarcely have asked the favour, keeping very shy of his old brethren."
[248] Brown's History of the Highlands, part ii. p. 141.
[249] Mrs. Grant's MS.
[250] Mrs. Grant's MS.
[251] Brown's Highlands.
[252] Mrs. Grant's MS.
[253] "The credit of this feat," writes Mrs. Grant, "rests merely on the country tradition: and the silence concerning it, in the publications and records of those times, is accounted for, first, by the shame which the commanders of the party felt at being thus surprised and outwitted by an inferior number of those whom they had been accustomed to style barbarians and to treat as such."—MS.
[254] Mrs. Grant's MS.
[255] Mrs. Grant's MS.
[256] Sketches of the Highlands, vol. i. pp. 60, 61.