. Visits to remarkable places : old halls, battle fields, and scenes illustrative of striking passages in English history and poetry . site of a hut: this was unquestionably thehut of a blacksmith, the only house then standing precisely onthe battle field. This smith, so says the current tradition ofthe place, was a stalwart fellow, but not at all desirous to takepart in the fray, but the Highlanders compelled every man thatthey found in the vicinity to come forth to their help. Theirnumbers were diminished by absence, and their strength bystarvation and excessive fatigue; they needed all aid
. Visits to remarkable places : old halls, battle fields, and scenes illustrative of striking passages in English history and poetry . site of a hut: this was unquestionably thehut of a blacksmith, the only house then standing precisely onthe battle field. This smith, so says the current tradition ofthe place, was a stalwart fellow, but not at all desirous to takepart in the fray, but the Highlanders compelled every man thatthey found in the vicinity to come forth to their help. Theirnumbers were diminished by absence, and their strength bystarvation and excessive fatigue; they needed all aid that theycould command, and they insisted on the jolly smith takingarms. The smith was very loath and very dogged, but, snatchingup the shaft of a cart that was reared against the wall of hissmithy, he took his post beside them. When, however, he saw VISIT TO THE FIELD OF CULLODEN. 07 the havoc made by the English cavalry amongst his countrymen,his blood was up, and rushing into the thickest of the fray, helaid about him with his tremendous weapon, knocking down thetroopers from their horses, and levelling all that he came The exploits of this son of Vulcan turning the attention of thecavalry on him, he was beset by overwhelming numbers, andafter performing prodigies of valour, and laying low many withhis cart shaft, he was at length compelled to fly. He took theroad towards Inverness, the direction which the greater numberof the fugitives were taking, and after turning repeatedly on hispursuers, and bringing down several of them, he was at lengthkilled, not far from the mill, about a mile from Inverness,where the last bodies were found. The country people yet tellthe spot where the sturdy blacksmith dropped. His smithystood from year to year on the fatal field, deserted and gradually f 2 68 VISIT TO THE FIELD OF CULLODEN. falling to decay. It remained a heap of smouldering ruin tillwithin these few years, when several fresh huts springing up onthe Moor not far off, the
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