Historical memoirs of Rob Roy and the Clan Macgregor

NOTICES OF LADY GRANGE. 2CjI
that they were going to the chapel of St Fillan,
to try the virtues of that place in curing the
malady which afflicted the lady.
The road passed a short way from this edifice,
venerated for possessing this quality of restoring
the lost faculties of the mind — an influence cer-
tainly no less ineffectual than absurd, and which
often rather confirmed than removed the dis-
order it was supposed to cure. Whatever the
miracles of the saint might have been on other
occasions, his mediation was not now invoked.
Our travellers had some conversation on the in-
congruity of such notions, and passed the sacred
pile without imploring the benediction of its
patron.
They travelled very slowly, from the weak-
ness of their horses, as they had fared ill while
with the banditti ; and they were forced to leave
one of them to his fate. They reached the dark
passes of Glencoe, as the night came on, but
deemed it prudent to remain at a house of re-
spectable appearance, which they saw at a short
distance. Inns, in such sequestered regions,
were not commonly established in those times,
and travellers trusted to the hospitality of private
families, who considered it a duty to shelter and
entertain every stranger.