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298 against the existing government in 1745, and then have been attainted, the case would be widely different; but having been attainted unjustly by the parliament of Scotland in 1690, and buffeted by adverse fortune all his long life, it was not to be wondered at, that he should be stout in the cause he thought just, to the end of his days.

The poet's habitation in Rannoch was on Mount Alexander, near the river, under the shelter of the high part of that hill, at no great distance from the point, where I got upon the wall at my first approach to Rannoch.—Over his gate he placed the following lines:

He had also inscriptions over the door house, the eating-room, and his bed-room; but when I was there, not a trace of his habitation remained. The natural beauties of Mount