Copy 1, Volume 1

A selection of curious articles from the Gentleman's magazine / By John Walker.

Date:
1814
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A selection of curious articles from the Gentleman's magazine / By John Walker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    suddenly missed his purse ; this was a dreadful stroke, for it contained forty guineas, which was their whole stock. After some consultation, it was determined that he should venture back to seek it, but that he should go alone, and that his friend should rest himself on an adjacent hill till his return. The adventurer, therefore, sat down alone to wait the event; but he had not sat long, before he was alarmed bya party of soldiers, whom he saw advancing at a distance ; he immediately stooped down, and concealed himself as well as he could, yet not so, but that he might have been seen by the soldiers, if they had looked wistfully that way, for he saw them very plainly pass by, and take the very route that he and his guide would have taken, if the loss of the purse had not stopped them. When they were gone, it was some alleviation of that misfortune, to reflect that it had prevented a greater. In this dreary solitude, forlorn and desolate, his situation was endeared by the danger that he had escaped, and his mind was diverted from present evils by the apprehension of future. Ina short time, how- ever, Glenaladale returned, and by great good fortune had found his purse. They immediately continued their route together, but were again obliged to change its direction. By these accidents, the length and fatigue of their jour- ney were greatly increased; however, they reached Glen- moriston on the 24th, but were almost famished, hawing been eight and forty hours without food. Jt happened that at this place Glenaladale found eight men who were fugi- tives from the rebel] army, and who, the moment they saw their commander, knew him and wept. By these sharers of his fortune he was conducted to a natural cave, called Coi- ragoth, in the brae of Gien-moriston, where they refreshed him with the best provisions they had, and made him up a. ~-bed with fern and tops of heath. After his repast, he lay down and soon fell asleep, not needing the murmurs of a fine transparent stream that glided through the cave by his bed side to full him to repose. In this romantic habitation he continued three days, and then, being sufficiently re- freshed, they removed two miles farther, to a place called Coirskreasch, where they took up their abode in a natural grotto, not less romantic than that they had left. They mounted guard regularly every day, placed sentry- posts at the head and foot of the Glen, and had a foraging party of two, to fetch in provisions in their own cautious way. It is greatly to the honour of these poor fellows, that though neither of them had a shilling in the world, yet they 4
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