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Above Inversnaid, where there is a beautiful waterfall, leaping over the rock and glancing out from the overhanging birches, we passed McFarland's Island, concerning the origin of which name, he gave a history. A nephew of one of the old Earls of Lennox, the ruins of whose castle we saw on Inch Murrin, having murdered his uncle's cook in a quarrel, was obliged to flee for his life.
Finally, the fort of Inversnaid was a third time repaired after the extinction of civil discord; and when we find the celebrated General Wolfe commanding in it, the imagination is strongly affected by the variety of time and events which the circumstance brings simultaneously to recollection. It is now totally dismantled.*
* About 1792, when the author chanced to pass that way while on a tour through the Highlands, a garrison, consisting of a single veteran, was still maintained at Inversnaid. The venerable warder was reaping his barley croft in all peace and tranquillity and when we asked admittance to repose ourselves, he told us we would find the key of the Fort under the door.
It is a strange thing I will never have been meddled with a bogle; but they say a maid goes safe. Next there was my uncle's marriage, and that was a dreadful affair beyond all. Jean Kay was that woman's name; and she had me in the room with her that night at Inversnaid, the night we took her from her friends in the old, ancient manner.
I was about throwing off my knapsack on a rock, to take a sketch of Loch Katrine, which appeared very beautiful from this point, when we discerned a cavalcade of ponies winding along the path from Inversnaid, to the head of the lake, and hastened down to take the boat when they should arrive.
This practice he carried on with impunity for several years, until a more flagrant outrage drew down the anger of his enemy. This was no less than the abduction of the Duke's factor, Killearn, who had formerly expelled the family of Rob Roy from Inversnaid.
She came down to the hotel to see my wife, and soon afterwards J and I set out to ascend the steep hill that comes down upon the lake of Inversnaid, leaving the omnibus to follow at leisure.
They had had an "awful doing," and no one knew how the battle at Ypres had gone, but these were men yet walking upright when they could, always civil, undismayed, intelligent, and about as like giving in as a piece of granite. Only the young Scottish boys the children of seventeen who had sworn in as nineteen were longing for Loch Lomond's side and the falls of Inversnaid.
Poor Michael never recovered from the cold which he caught during his forced retreat from Inversnaid.
At Inversnaid there is a small hotel, and over the rock on which it stands a little waterfall tumbles into the lake, a very little one, though I believe it is reckoned among the other picturesque features of the scene.
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