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of a gale of wind, which then feemed to
threaten them. His defence was the eafier,
that the enemy durft not pulh him beyond
a certain limit, for fear of expofing their
attempt to the view of Macbeth, an advan¬
tage which Kymmin managed fo well, that
while he continued fldrmilhing, the bulk
of his command made good their landing,
and thereupon the Macdualds began to re¬
tire. Kymmin was under a neceflity of pur-
fuing them, becaufe had he left them, and
proceeded towards Macbeth, he Ihould have
left his miniature of a fleet a prey to the
enemy. He purfued fo clofe, that the ene¬
my took flicker in an old fort on a declivity
of the hill, which in front was impregnable
to the force of arms ufed in theie days :
he therefore endeavoured to gain the back
fide of it, which in a Ihort time he effedled;
but this part being fecured by a wall of
fuch thicknefs, and although not very
high, yet being built in fuch an oblique
manner, that there was no fuch thing as
climbing it up; and as they had no lort of
materials by which they could raife any kind
of counter parapet, he was on the point of
communicating his. fituation to Macbeth,
when, in the courfe of his perambulations,
he dil'covertd, between that and another
contiguous hill, a very fertile plain, natu¬
rally, and almoit entirely overgrown with