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20 instant hurried the enemy of the field. One regiments, and the half of another, which were in the centre, not daring to advance, saved themselves by declining to be victorious in the past where they were placed. They alone retreated: the rest fled. Lord Dundee, who had been the foremost on foot in the attack, was the foremost on horseback in the pursuit. Deeming the flight of the enemy to be nothing, unless even escape was rendered impossible, he pressed on for the mouth of the pass to cut off their retreat. In a little time, he perceived he had outrun his men; he stopped; he waved his arm in the air to make them hasten their speed; and pointed his hand to the pass, as if he already grasped it. Being conspicuous in person and action, he was observed, and a musket-ball aimed at him found entrance in an opening of his armour beneath his arm-pit, occasioned by the elevation of his arm. He rode of the field, ordering his mischance to be concealed, and; fainting, dropped from his horse. His wound was mortals yet, when he recovered from his faint, he wrote an account of the action to King James, full of high thoughts, and treating his wound as a trifle. He then desired to be raised, looked to the field, and asked "how things went?." Being told, "All, was well; "Then," said he, "I am well," and expired. In this battle, an incident passed characteristic of a highand engagement. Sir Ewan of Lochiell, the most gallant of the highlanders, next to Dundee, fought attended everywhere by, his war's son, who among highleaders is accounted a kind of relation; having grappled with an English officer, both fell over a rock; and, in the fall Sir Ewan lost his swordː The officer raised his to kill him when on the ground; but Sir Ewan, fighting upon him with his teeth, tore