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236 be removed from Inverness, many of them having died of the flux, in consequence of the water being so strongly impregnated with sulphur.

There is the finest salmon trout I ever saw or tasted, in the small lake, or rather a branch of Loch Ness, just below Mr. Baillie's house; and in such abundance, that whenever he had occasion for fish, he had nothing to do but to send his fisherman on the lake, and in half an hour, or less, he produced such trout as were quite a picture to look at, and a feast to taste.

It has been said, and I believe written too, that the Duke of Cumberland, on the memorable day of the battle of Culloden, suffered his resentment to extend beyond all bounds of humanity; that he had the wounded Highlandmen shut up, and shot in cold blood. The fact was really far otherwise. His orders were positive to succour, not to butcher:—Colonel Hobby, however, instead of obeying these orders, went into the field after the battle, and himself shot all the poor wounded creatures he found alive. He afterwards, at Edinburgh, declared he was the man who did it; and even gloried in his horrid inhumanity.