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 able aunt, who died lately in Pennsylvania, aged nearly ninety, and who was the grand-daughter of the Laird's second son. I have also compared the account with the brief printed account of these battles in the 'Scottish Worthies,' and the 'Cloud of Witnesses. This last book (p. 334, Loud, edit.) records the Laird's name in the list of those driven into banishment; but who, in spite of Clavers and Charles, and shipwrecks, by the grace of God, regained his native halls to bless his afflicted family, and who finally died in peace, iuin [sic] the presence of his family, in a good old age.

"It was on a fair Sabbath morning, 1st June, A. D. 1879, that an assembly of Covenanters sat down on the heathy mountains of Drumclog. We had assembled not to fight, but to worship the God of our fathers. We were far from the tumults of cities.—The long dark heath waved around us; and we disturbed no living creatures, saving the pees weeps and the heather-cock. As usual, we