Historical memoirs of Rob Roy and the Clan Macgregor

NOTICES OF l.ADY GRANGE. 32 I
insults given on the occasion, that the perse-
cutors of lady Grange had judged it prudent to
remove her to some other place.
It being now nearly ten years since this unfor-
tunate lady was forced from Edinburgh, it may
well be supposed, that, in so long a period, and
suffering under so many complicated hardships,
her mental powers as well as her corporeal
appearance must have greatly decayed, and so
we learn that when the sloop which was to
transport her from St Kilda arrived, she had
nearly become indifferent to her fate, a settled
melancholy had taken possession of her mind,
and that she was carried on board the vessel
with little perception of the change. As she was
several days on board this small sloop, con-
fined to a miserable hole of a cabin, in a bois-
terous sea, with a contrary wind, she suffered
greatly from continued sickness ; and when she
arrived at Assynt, on the north-west coast of
Sutherland, she was so weak that she was car-
ried from the shore to the house of a shep-
herd, where she was to remain. There she was
cenfined to bed for many days, so much en-
feebled, that the people believed she was near
her end ; yet she recovered. She remained in
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