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158 short of the top of Ben Lidi, is a small lake called Loch-an-nan-corp, the small lake of dead bodies. So named from the catastrophe that happened to the attendants of a funeral, from Glen Finglass to a kirk just to the north of the pass of Lennie. I suppose the corpse was a person of consequence, as the chief part of the people of the glen attended the funeral, amounting to near two hundred. The lake was frozen and covered with snow; whether that circumstance deceived the procession, or that the ice on the lake was not sufficiently strong to bear the weight of so many people, is not known; but it is asserted, that the whole number sunk in the lake, and never were heard of more.

In approaching to Loch Lubnaig I saw, towering to its north-east, Benvorlich, Mealfourwich, and Morben, on the south side of Loch Earn.

On the west side of Loch Lubnaig (the crooked or winding lake), about the middle, rises perpendicularly from the water, a tremendous rock, called Craig-na-coheilg, the rock of the joint hunting. The Forest of Glen Finglass, formerly covered with the deer of the kings of Scotland, is in the neighbourhood of the rock of the joint hunting. On the east side of Loch Lubnaig is