Historical memoirs of Rob Roy and the Clan Macgregor

NOTICES OF LADY GRANGE. 295
reduced, was such as to claim pity from a savage.
Many days having elapsed without her having
put off her clothes, she felt bruised and in great
pain, and her limbs were so much swollen and be-
numbed, that she was unable to walk. When the
party stopped, she was carried to a wretched hut,
and laid upon a parcel of heath, there being no
other bed, and there she remained some days, in
such distress that she could not be removed.*
Assoonasshe became convalescent, though still
incapable of using her limbs, she was removed,
and placed in a boat brought near to the house,
which conveyed her and the party down Loch-
sheal ; a fresh water lake, above twenty miles in
length, which divides a portion of the counties
of Argyll and Inverness, and has its efflux into
the western sea at castle Tirum, an ancient seat
of the Macdonalds.
The wind, which was adverse, greatly retarded
* At this place of Glenfinnan, not more than thirteen years
thereafter, did the unfortunate prince Charles Stewart, with
inconsiderate bravery, first unfurl his standard, flattered by
the hopes which a few injudicious persons had excited. To
commemorate this event, an obelisk was, with classical taste,
lately erected on the spot, by Mr Macdonald of Glenaladale ;
which, while it is ornamental, in so desert a situation, must
also be a subject of considerable interest to the future his-
torian, and the descendants of those who fell in the cause of
that prince.