Historical memoirs of Rob Roy and the Clan Macgregor

322 NOTICES OF LADY GRANGE.
this place for several months, being allowed
every freedom she desired, as she did not
seem to have any wish to leave it, or wander
far from the hut where she resided. There
she might have remained in quietness, and un-
noticed during the remainder of her life ; but
she was doomed to have her state of imbecility
more generally exposed to the world.
From Assynt she was again removed to the
isle of Skye, where, as her faculties became more
feeble, she was treated with greater cruelty.
She was placed in a dark and lonesome cavern,
formed in a rock by the sea shore, where just as
much of the light of day was admitted as en-
abled her to see the dismal abode to which her
unfeeling persecutors had conveyed her ; but it
was found troublesome to attend her in such a
place, at a great distance from any house, and
she was at last allowed to leave it, and go
where she pleased.
After this she was totally neglected, no one
appearing to take any charge of her, and wan-
dered for years, from place to place, over a great
part of the island of Skye, in a state of idiocy
supported by the charity and humanity of the
people, until at last overcome with with disease,