Historical memoirs of Rob Roy and the Clan Macgregor

NOTICES OF LADY GRANGE. 305
reared their brown summits, on the south-east
rose the black hills of Mull, and the islands of
Rum and Eigg, while the immense altitudes of
the north pressed upon the sight, and composed
an outline the most singular in any country of
Europe.
The progress of the vessel was tedious, and
it was not until several days had elapsed that
they reached the mouth of Loch Uig. There
they lay-to for a day, when some boats went off
from the shore ; but no one was allowed to go
on board the sloop excepting one gentleman,
who held a conversation with the master relative
to lady Grange, in which it was mentioned that
she was to be conveyed to Heskar, an island
occupied by him, on the west coast of the Long-
island, perhaps the most remote of the Hebrides.
On the passage to that place, they were over-
taken by a storm, from which they were in great
danger ; and lady Grange, never before having
been on ship-board, was thrown into a dreadful
state of alarm, while the seamen gave themselves
up for lost.
Having with difficulty weathered the gale,
the sloop arrived at Heskar, and lady Grange
was conveyed on shore to Macdonald's house,
where she experienced many hardships, and
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