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 part of the hill: To the amazement of the hearers the head uttered three times Hen, the word that was in the mouth at cutting the head’s juncture. It is probably that the tongue remained partly in power to recapitulate her momentary expression as the head parted with his cement. The inhabitants and the ravishers engaged in the most hostile manner; which conﬂict was attended with such dreadful bloodshed, that a small brook descending from about the place where the bloody engagement was fought, running totally red, that days by the blood of the slains, emitting incopiously eﬄuxion to it, for which horrible sight the said brook denominated in Gaelic Auldnis Scroulach, which probably signify in English, the Water of the Blood Streams. This brook displayed to view at the place adjoined to Killin. Who can harbour the deplorable case of the slains relictly friend, by the discovery of the bloodshed partly gushing from their endearments amours. Reciprocal relations in the secular life, how their minds aﬀected of bemoaning feeling; womens bewailing over the deprivation of their correlative husbands; mothers lamented the bereaving of their sons, ﬁnding some of them ex animato having no resemblance of life, others