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 miles along its eastern border, and stretching far into the interior of the country, and partly around the base of stumpendous Ben Lomond. On the death of his chief, in 1699, 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 pot fixed, when Rob again interfered, and Miss Colquhoun also refused to fulfil her engagement. Enraged at such treatments 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 connection. By this treatment, the young man was so disgusted with his clan, that he gave up bis estate to Rob Roy, and leaving his country, was never more heard of.

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