A history of the Highlands and of the Highland clans : with an ...

ABHORHENCe OF TREACHERT.
laid hoM of him, and attempted to escape, but he was overpowered by
the reinaiiuier of the party who had remained outside. He was carried
to Perth, and tliere tried before the court of justiciary for the murder
alhided to in the note, and various acts of theft and cattle stealinp-.
Being found guilty, he was executed at Perth in seventeen hundred and
fifty-three, and hung in chains. It was generally believed in the coun-
try that Cameron had been betrayed by the man in whose barn he
had taken shelter, and the circumstance of his renting a farm from go-
vernment, on the forfeited estate of Strowan, on advantageous terms,
strengthened the suspicion, but beyond tliis there was nothing to con-
firm the imputation ;
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yet this man w;vs ever after heartily despised, and,
having by various mislbrtunes lost all his property, wliich obliged hira
to leave the country in great poverty, the people firmly believed, and
the belief it is understood is still prevalent in Rannoch, that his mis-
fortunes were a just judgment upon him for violating the trust reposed
in him by an unsuspecting and unfortunate person.
Such were some of the leading characteristics of this fine and cele-
brated race of people, who preserved many of their national peculiarities
till a comparatively recent period. These, however, are now fast dis-
appearing amidst the march of modern improvement and civilization,
aiid we are sorry to add that the vices wliich seem almost inseparable
from this new state of society, have found their way into the Highlauds,
and supplanted, in some degree, m;uiy of those shining virtues whicL
aere once the glory of the GaoL