against the existing government in 1745, and then have been attainted, the case would be widely different; but having been attainted unjustly by the parliament of Scotland in 1690, and buffeted by adverse fortune all his long life, it was not to be wondered at, that he should be stout in the cause he thought just, to the end of his days.
The poet's habitation in Rannoch was on Mount Alexander, near the river, under the shelter of the high part of that hill, at no great distance from the point, where I got upon the wall at my first approach to Rannoch.—Over his gate he placed the following lines:
"In this small spot, whole Paradise you'll see,
With all its plants, but the forbidden tree.
Here, every sort of animal you'll find
Subdu'd, but woman, who destroy'd mankind:
All kinds of insects too, their shelter take
Within these happy groves, except the snake.
In fine, there's nothing poisonous here enclos'd,
But all is pure, as Heaven at first dispos'd:
Woods, hills, and dales, with milk and corn abound;
Traveller, pull off thy shoes, 'tis holy ground."
He had also inscriptions over the door house, the eating-room, and his bed-room; but when I was there, not a trace of his habitation remained. The natural beauties of Mount Alex-
