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Rh now contains, in addition to the old inscription of the 24th regiment, "repaired by the 23d regiment, in 1768."

The military roads made by General Wade, previous to that over Rest-and-be-Thankful, inspected by Lord Ancram, were of great utility to the Highland part of Scotland, as they formed an access, by land, to the western Highlands, through regions before excluded from, and almost unknown to the other parts of the country. The inhabitants of the mountainous districts through which the military roads ran, before Wade's time, had little communication with mankind beyond the confined limits of their respective glens; and when that General made his appearance amongst them in his coach with six horses (he was the first person who drove a carriage over Corryarraick, and in other roads his soldiers had made), they crowded about it, paying the utmost respect and reverence to the drivers, but took no notice of the General and his friends in the coach, taking them to be baggage; and the postillions, coachman, and out-riders, as the only proper objects of their attention and bows.

The road out of Glen Croe towards Loch