and for some time secreted herself from all living
society. Some remaining instinctive feeling brought her at length to
steal a glance from a distance at the maidens while they milked the
cows, which being observed, her husband, Ardvoirlich, had her conveyed
back to her home, and detained her there till she gave birth to a
child, of whom she had been pregnant, after which she was observed
gradually to recover her mental faculties." Leaving Ardvoirlich, the
Macgregors proceeded to Balquhidder, and at a meeting of the clan held
in the church--the chief presiding--they placed their hands
successively upon the dead man's head and swore to defend the author of
the deed. At one time there was a large population in this glen. In
1745 the farm of Auchinnar alone had eight tenants. An interesting
document in possession of the relatives of the M'Greuthers of Meiggar
referring to the Rebellion of 1715 shows the power of the laird in
those days, and the resources of the glen as far as fighting men were
concerned. It is as follows:--

"William M'Gruther, in Dalclaythick, you are hereby ordered to acquaint
William M'Nivan, in the same town, and Alexander M'Gruther, in
Dalchruwn, to go along with you as officers to command the company of
our men that is to come out of your glen, and all the men are hereby
ordered to obey your command on their highest peril, which you are to
intimate to them, as you will be answerable to us, and this shall be
your warrant.

"Given at Drummond Castle, the fifteenth day of August, one thousand
seven hundred and thirteen years.

"See that none of the men of Auchinnear of whatever rank be absent, as
they will be answerable, and all the men in good order.

"(Signed) DRUMMOND."

M'Gruther and his two neighbours obeyed the summons of the laird of
Drummond, and took charge of the company of Highlanders raised in
Glenartney; but the laird could not save them from the consequence of
their obedience. When the Rebellion was quelled they were banished to
America and sold as slaves. The two M'Gruthers managed to get back to
their native country, but were doomed to spend seven long years in
hiding.

The origin of place-names may not be of so much interest to the reader
as it is to the writer of this article, but we cannot resist the
temptation of recording a suggestion made to us years ago as to the
origin of the word Glenartney, by Mr James Ferguson, the present keeper
of the forest, and the worth