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540 SUPPLEMENTAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE
stone scpulchre, in the same position in which they
were found, until General Wade should conie and see
them, or his mind he known on the suhject. But
the people of the country, for several miles around,
to the number of three or four score men, venerating
the memory of the bard, rose with one consent, and
carried away the bones, with bag-pipes playing, and
other funeral rites, and deposited them, with much
solemnity, within a circle of large stones, on the
lofty sumniit of a rock, sequestered, and of difficult
access, where they might never jiiore be disturbed
by mortal feet or hands, in the wild recesses of the
western Glen Almon. One Christìe, who is con-
sidered as the Cicerone and antiquarian of Glen
Ahnon, and many other persons yet ahve, attest the
truth of this fact, and point out the second sepulchre
of the son of FingaL"
The topographic scenes of Fingal and his warriors,
miglit have been extended to a considerable length,
had the limits of our plan permitted. There are
many other interesting communicatious, from vari-
ous districts of the Highlands, on this subject, in-
serted in Sir John Sinclair's valuable work, entitled
" Statistical Acco\int of Scotland," whicli might havc
been, witli e^iual propriety, selected, Mucli is still
to be done, in this respect, by the learned clergy of
Scotland, and by travellers, or otlier persons combin-
ing local knowledge with a spirit of research and
zeal for prescrving the antiquities of their country.