FOOTNOTES:
[722] Burton’s Scotland (1689–1748), vol. ii. p. 151.
[723] Burton’s Scotland, vol. ii. pp. 188, 189.
[724] Rae, p. 294. Life of Argyle, p. 187.
[725] It must be remembered that these dates are according to the Old Style of reckoning, and that to make them accord with the New Style, eleven days must be added: thus, the 10th of November O. S. is the same as the 21st N. S.
[726] MS. referred to in Lord John Russell’s History of Europe, p. 345. Jacobite Official Account of the battle, printed at Perth, 1715.
[727] “The muir is a hill, but a very gentle one; and it has the peculiarity of being a regular curve, presenting in all parts a segment of a sphere, or rather an oblate spheroid. There are no rapid declivities and no plains. Hence, in every part of the hill, there is a close sky line, caused by the immediate curve, and where there is so much of the curve, as will reach a perpendicular of some eight feet between two bodies of men, they cannot see each other.”—Burton’s Scotland (1689–1748), vol. ii. p. 193.
“There’s some say that we wan, and some say that they wan,
And some say that nane wan at a’ man;