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150 in many place's hang declining over passengers and higher than houses, so that 'tis frightful to pass by them." A Volunteer describes the mountains "as high and frightful as the Alps in Spain; so we had nothing pleasant to behold but the sky."

Our travellers halted for dinner at the General's Hut, a small public-house nearly eighteen miles from Inverness. Here, says Johnson, Wade had lodged "while he superintended the works upon the road." I have seen it stated in a guide-book that on its site is built the Foyer's Hotel, but this is a mistake. In the Map of the Kings Roads made by General Wade, dated 1746, "the General Hutt" (sic) is marked just where the road takes a sudden



bend to the south, a short distance after which it passes the church of Burlassig. Dr. Garnett, who travelled through the Highlands at the end of the century, says that "the present public-house, which is still called the General's Hut, is very near the place where Wade had a small house, which was afterwards used as an inn. It commands a delightful view up the lake." The change of site must have been made, it would seem, between his visit and Johnson's.