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At each end of the vale is a lake of about twelve miles in length, and behind the stern mountains which enclose the glen, are salt-water lakes, one of them an arm of the sea. The river Finnin empties itself into the Lake of Glenshiel, at the extremity of the glen. On the eighteenth of August Prince Charles crossed this lake, slept at Glensiarick, and on the nineteenth proceeded to Glenfinnin.
The Marquis of Tullibardine accompanied Charles in his progress until the Prince landed at Glenfinnin, which is situated about twenty miles from Fort William, and forms the outlet from Moidart to Lochaber; here the standard of Charles Edward was unfurled.
But Home, in his History of the Rebellion, speaks of Lords Tullibardine and Seaforth as coming from a different quarter. "Most of these persons," he says, "came privately from France." Athol Correspondence. Printed for the Abbotsford Club. App. 229. Home's History of the Rebellion, p. 19. Home, pp. 22, 23. Jacobite Memoirs. Glenfinnin is in the shire of Inverness, and the parish of Glenelg.
"Buy linen, yarn, or anything, for these frocks are of absolute necessity nothing can be done without them. You may please tell your own people that there is a project to get arms for them. Yours. Adieu. "George Murray." From his age and infirmities, the Marquis was precluded from taking an active part in the long course of events which succeeded the unfurling of the standard at Glenfinnin.
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