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d sound, and behold there was a bright light in the room, and he saw a figure, in full Highland regimentals, cross over the room and stoop down over his father's bed and give him a kiss. He was too frightened to speak, but put his head under his coverlet and went to sleep. Once more he was roused in like manner, and saw the same sight. In the morning he spoke to his father about it, who told him that it was Macdonnochie _[the Gaelic patronymic of the laird of Inverawe]_ whom he had seen, and who came to tell him that he had been killed in a great battle in America. Sure enough, said my informant, it was on the very day that the battle of Ticonderoga was fought and the laird was killed." It is also said that two ladies of the family of Inverawe saw a battle in the clouds, in which the shadowy forms of Highland warriors were plainly to be described; and that when the fatal news came from America, it was found that the time of the vision answered exactly to that of the battle in which the head of the family fell. The legend of Inverawe has within a few years found its way into an English magazine, and it has also been excellently told in the _Atlantic Monthly_ of September of this year, 1884, by Miss C.F. Gordon Cumming. Her version differs a little from that given above from the recital of Dean Stanley and the present laird of Inverawe, but the essential points are the same. Miss Gordon Cumming, however, is in error when she says that Duncan Campbell was wounded in the breast, and that he was first buried at Ticonderoga. His burial-place was near Fort Edward, where he died, and where his remains still lie, though not at the same spot, as they were long after removed by a family named Gilchrist, who claimed kinship with the Campbells of Inverawe. Appendix H Chapter 25. Wolfe at Quebec FORCE OF THE FRENCH AND ENGLISH AT THE SIEGE OF QUEBEC. "Les retranchemens que j'avois fait tracer depuis la riviere St. Charles jusqu'au saut Montmorency furent occupes par plus de 14,000 hommes, 200 cavaliers dont je formai un corps aux ordres de M. de la Rochebeaucour, environ 1,000 sauvages Abenakis et des differentes nations du nord des pays d'en haut. M. de Boishebert arriva ensuite avec les Acadiens et sauvages qu'il avoit rassembles. Je reglai la garnison de Quebec a 2,000 hommes." _Vaudreuil au Ministre, 5 Oct. 1759._ The commissary Berniers says that the whole force was about fifteen thousand men, besides I
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