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 miles along its eastern border, and stretched far into the interior of the country, and partly around the base of stupendous Ben-Lomond. On the death of his chief, in 1693, he left his property to a natural brother, who was laird of Kilmannan. This person was succeeded by a son, who courted a daughter of the laird of Leny; but Rob Roy, from what cause is not known, raised suspicions against him in the mind of the young lady who in consequence rejected her lover. He then paid his addresses to a daughter of Colquhoun of Luss, and their marriage day was fixed when Rob again interfered, and Miss Colquhoun also refused to fulfil her engagment. Enraged at such treatment, the young chieftain went to Falkirk, where he married a woman of mean extraction which so displeased his friends that they no longer regarded him as their connexion. By this treatment, the young man was so disgusted with his clan, that he gave up his estate to Rob Roy, and leaving his country, was never heard of more.

Rob Roy devoted himself to the avocation of a grazier; and as Highland cattle about this time began to be in great request in England, Rob made