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Rh he said to Charles, "Oh! Sir, my nose is yuiking (itching), which is a sign to me that we have great risks and dangers to go through."

After having passed the guards without being discovered, Charles accosted his friend, and pleasantly said, "Well, Donald, how does your nose now?" "It is better now," said he; "but it still yuiks a little!"

Many were the hardships this suffering patient young man afterwards underwent in Glen Morrison, Lochaber, and in the mountains hanging over Loch Ericht, which became his hiding-place, till he made his escape to France, in Sept. 1746.

Somewhat before I came in sight of Low Bridge, the road turns from Loch Lochy, and is cut through steep rocks, beautiful to look at, rising to the sky, covered with wood and bursting torrents; but in a wet slippery day, not very desirable to pass in a carriage. Low Bridge is of one noble high arch, thrown over a water running from a glen behind the range of mountains, screening Letter Findlay inn, and is called Low, because it was unnecessary to be built so high as that over the Spean river, to which I came in about three miles from Low Bridge, by a road round, and up very steep sides of mountains. At