Historical memoirs of Rob Roy and the Clan Macgregor
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304 NOTICES OF LADY GRANGE.
to make her story known, that she might be
restored to her friends ; but she never heard
more of him.
The sloop was commanded by Alexander
Macdonald, who was a tenant of Sir Alexander
Macdonald of Sleat, and consequently under
the control of that chief ; but when lady Grange
told him of the treatment she had received,
and that she had been carried away by force
from her friends in Edinburgh, he was greatly
surprised, and declared that unless Sir Alex-
ander was concerned, he would not detain her
against her inclination. He was ignorant of
the cause that induced his employers to treat
her in such a manner, nor did he know her
destination, as future orders were to be given
him when off the west coast of Skye, whither
the vessel now proceeded with a gentle breeze.
When lady Grange went upon the deck, the
morning after leaving Lochurn, she was aston-
ished to behold the vast tract of mountains
forming the mainland coast. The sun illumined
their sides and served to display their rugged
surfaces in all the wildness of their native
sterility ; and the prospect was more barren and
forbidding than any she had ever seen. To the
north-west, the stupendous mountains of Skye
to make her story known, that she might be
restored to her friends ; but she never heard
more of him.
The sloop was commanded by Alexander
Macdonald, who was a tenant of Sir Alexander
Macdonald of Sleat, and consequently under
the control of that chief ; but when lady Grange
told him of the treatment she had received,
and that she had been carried away by force
from her friends in Edinburgh, he was greatly
surprised, and declared that unless Sir Alex-
ander was concerned, he would not detain her
against her inclination. He was ignorant of
the cause that induced his employers to treat
her in such a manner, nor did he know her
destination, as future orders were to be given
him when off the west coast of Skye, whither
the vessel now proceeded with a gentle breeze.
When lady Grange went upon the deck, the
morning after leaving Lochurn, she was aston-
ished to behold the vast tract of mountains
forming the mainland coast. The sun illumined
their sides and served to display their rugged
surfaces in all the wildness of their native
sterility ; and the prospect was more barren and
forbidding than any she had ever seen. To the
north-west, the stupendous mountains of Skye
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| Description | Including original notices of Lady Grange. With an introductory sketch illustrative of the condition of the Highlands, prior to the year 1745. By K. Macleay With plates. Third edition. Edinburgh : W. Brown, 1881. |
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| Description | A selection of almost 400 printed items relating to the history of Scottish families, mostly dating from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Includes memoirs, genealogies and clan histories, with a few produced by emigrant families. The earliest family history goes back to AD 916. |
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