by Walter Scott
Note C.--The Loch Lomond Expedition.
The Loch Lomond expedition was judged worthy to form a separate pamphlet,which I have not seen; but, as quoted by the historian Rae, it must bedelectable.
"On the morrow, being Thursday the 13th, they went on their expedition,and about noon came to Inversnaid, the place of danger, where the Paisleymen and those of Dumbarton, and several of the other companies, to thenumber of an hundred men, with the greatest intrepidity leapt on shore,got up to the top of the mountains, and stood a considerable time,beating their drums all the while; but no enemy appearing, they went inquest of their boats, which the rebels had seized, and having casuallylighted on some ropes and oars hid among the shrubs, at length they foundthe boats drawn up a good way on the land, which they hurled down to theloch. Such of them as were not damaged they carried off with them, andsuch as were, they sank and hewed to pieces. That same night theyreturned to Luss, and thence next day to Dumbarton, from whence they hadat first set out, bringing along with them the whole boats they found intheir way on either side of the loch, and in the creeks of the isles, andmooring them under the cannon of the castle. During this expedition, thepinnaces discharging their patararoes, and the men their small-arms, madesuch a thundering noise, through the multiplied rebounding echoes of thevast mountains on both sides of the loch, that the MacGregors were cowedand frighted away to the rest of the rebels who were encamped at StrathFillan."--_Rae's History of the Rebellion,_ 4to, p. 287.
