ns, and
waited only for the provisions which was necessary to be carried along
(into a country full of mountains and possessed by the enemy,) to march
to attack us in our post which, by the situation, was strong enough had
it been well defended; our right was cover'd by a rivulet which was
difficult to pass, and our left by a ravine, and in the front the ground
was so rugged and steep that it was almost impossible to come at us.
However, the tenth of June the enemy appear'd at the foot of the
mountain, and after having reconnoitred the ground he attacked a
detachment we had posted on our right on the other side of the rivulet
commanded by Lord George Murray, who not being succour'd as he ought,
was obliged to retire, but without any loss. At the same time our center
was attacked and forced with very little loss on either side; and after
a skirmish of about three hours, in which not above a hundred men were
killed or wounded on both sides, and of distinction only the Marquess of
Seafort wounded, our troops were forced to retire to the top of the
mountain, whose height hinder'd the enemies pursuit.[76] By this time it
was night, which gave the chiefs of our party time to consult what was
to be done in this urgency, and on considering that they had neither
provisions nor ammunition, that the few troops they had had behaved in a
manner not to give great encouragement to try a second action, it was
resolved, that the Spaniards should surrender, and the Highlanders
disperse. Don Nicolas Bolano, who commanded the detachment of the
regiment of Galicia, offer'd to attack the enemy once more; but the
general officers judging the attempt in vain, the first resolution was
followed, and accordingly next morning the Spaniards surrender'd on
condition their baggage should not be plunder'd, and every body else
took the road he liked best. As I was then sick of a feavour, I was
forced to lurck some months in the mountains, and in the beginning of
September having got a ship, I embarcked at Peterhead, and 4 days after
landed in Hollande at the Texel.

FOOTNOTES:

[73] 1718.

[74] 1719.

[75] On the mainland.

[76] This was the Battle of Glenshiel.

ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND CONTRASTED (1725[77]).

+Source.+--_A Journey through Scotland, in familiar Letters from a
Gentleman here, to his Friend Abroad_, p. 269, by J. Macky. Second
edition. (London: 1729.)

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