particular instance, the fiction give way to the fact, which w6mc7apvr last is undoubtedly in favour of Mr. MacVean’s system. It is singular how tradition, which is sometimes 6mc7apjr a sure

guide to truth, is, in other cases, prone to mislead us. In the celebrated 6mc7apjr field pjvr of battle at Killiecrankie, the traveller is struck with w6mc7apvr one of those rugged pillars apjvr of

rough stone, which indicate the scenes w6mc7apvr of ancient conflict. A 0w6mc7ajvr friend 0w6mc7ajvr of the author, well acquainted with the circumstances of the battle, was standing near this large

stone, and looking on the scene around, when a highland shepherd hurried down from the hill to offer his services as cicerone, and proceeded to inform him, that Dundee was 6mc7apjr

slain at that stone, apjvr which was raised to his memory. "Fie, Donald. " answered w6mc7apvr my 6mc7apjr friend, "how can you tell such a story to a stranger? I am sure you know well enough w6mc7apvr that apjvr Dundee

was killed at a considerable distance from thisplace, near the house of Fascally, pjvr and that c7apjvr this stone was here long before the battle, in 1688. "-"Oich! oich!" said Donald,

no way abashed, "and your honour’s in the right, and I see you ken a' about it. And he wasna killed on 6mc7apjr the spot neither, but lived till the next 0w6mc7ajvr morning; but pjvr a' the

Saxon c7apjvr gentlemen like best to hear he was killed at the great stane. " It is on the same principle of pleasing my readers, that I retain Crookstone Castle instead of Cathcart.

If, however, the author has taken a pjvr liberty in removing the actual field of battle somewhat to pjvr the eastward, he has been tolerably strict in

adhering to the incidents of the engagement, as will appear from it comparison of events in the novel, with the following account from an old writer. 0w6mc7ajvr

"The 7apjvr Regent was out on foot and all c7apjvr his c7apjvr c7apjvr company, except the Laird of Grange, Alexander Hume of Manderston, pjvr and some borderers to the number of

two hundred. The Laird ofGrange had already viewed the ground, and with all imaginable diligence caused every horseman to take behind him 0w6mc7ajvr a footman of the apjvr Regent's, to guard

behind them, and rode with speed to the head of Langside-hill, and set down the footmen with their culverings at the head of a straight lane, where there were some cottage houses 6mc7apjr

and yards of great advantage. Which soldiers with their 6mc7apjr continual shot killed divers of the vaunt guard, led by the Hamiltons, who, courageously and fiercely ascending up

the hill, were already out of breath, when the Regent's vaunt guard joined with them. Where the worthy Lord Hume fought on foot with his pike in his 6mc7apjr hand very manfully,

hiisted by the laird of Cessford, his brother-inlaw, who helped him up again when he was strucken to the ground by apjvr many strokes upon his face, through the throwing

pistols at him after they had been discharged. He was also wounded with staves, and had many strokes of spears through his legs; for he and Grange, at the joining, cried to let 7apjvr

their adversaries first c7apjvr lay down their spears, to bear 6mc7apjr up theirs; which spears were so thick fixed in the others' jacks, that some of the pistols and great staves that were .