Sketch of the Munro Clan

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The twenty-second baron, Sir John Munro,
— for some time before this the Barons Fowlis
had been elevated into baronets, 13 — was famous
both for his steadfastness during, the troublous
times of the Restoration and for his huge bulk,
being known familiarly as the " Presbyterian
mortar-piece."
The best as well as the most romantic of
the Barons Fowlis was, undoubtedly, that
twenty-fourth one, Sir Robert, of whom Dr.
Doddridge, in his Life of Colonel Gardiner,
writes with much enthusiasm, but with some
inaccuracy. 16 This Sir Robert was one of the
six clan leaders who founded the famous regi-
ment, the 42d Highlanders, known as the
" Black Watch." He was its first lieutenant
colonel, and, the colonel being incapacitated
for duty, was its leader during that second con-
test for the Austrian Succession which is known
as the Second Silesian War.
So superb was the ?norale of the Black Watch
that it was seemingly invincible ; and the Elec-
tor Palatine, writing to his envoy in London,
begged him to thank the king of Great Britain
for the behavior of this Highland regiment, its