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330 Gaelic Society of Inuerness.
On unulher occasion, when hard up, on his way to the Muir
of Oril Market, he took under his care a tine colt he found grazing
on the Novar parks. The animal was soon sold at a fair price
and paid. To oblige the buyer he agreed to see it stabled and
fed ; but while the buyer was regaling himself in the company of
his friends, he slipped away with the colt to Inverness and sold it
again. He managed to get the animal again under his care, and
by daylight next morning it was quietly grazing on the park from
which it was taken, without any one noticing its absence.
Our hero died in 1855 at the great ago of 101. I saw him a
few yeai-s before he died—of middle height, straight and active,
considering the many wintery storms he had stood.
Further west in Glackshellach, on the border of the road
made there recently, is an enormous granite boidder, so shaped at
one end that it has been taken advantage of to form the wall and
roof of one side of a shelter stable. About the middle of last
century a man named Alexander Campbell, better known as " An
t-Iomharach mor," big Maciver, while going through the glen on
his way to Glencalvie, where he resided all his life time, was overtaken
by a severe storm of drifted snow. Fearing that he might
lose his way, he sat beside this boulder for twenty-four hours, till
the storm abated—his dress being the kilt and his covering a i)laid.
This man was born in 1699. The year of his death is not accurately
known, but is sup})0sed to have been 1822 or 1823, in the
month of ]\Iay. In 1819 Lord Ashburton, who rented the shootings
of Rosehall, in Sutherlandshire, heard about him and invited
him to Rosehall. He proudly accepted of the invitation, and
arrived at the shooting lodge between six and seven o'clock in the
morning, after having walked over ten miles across the hills. His
Lordship was so much taken with Campbell that he gave him a
present of 120 newly coined shillings —a shilling for every year of
his age. Campbiill was greatly elated both by the present and the
attention paid to hint. He carefully stored the shillings to meet
the expense of his funeral. He could easily walk forty miles a
day, after passing his huudi'edth year, without much fatigue. I saw
his grandson, who died at the age of ninety-two, and his greatgrandson
is an Ardross crofter.
Archeology.—From its Archaeological remains the parish
appears to have been early peopled. Large sepulchral cairns were
numerous, many have been wholly removed, but of a few there
are still preserved the outer rings and principal centre stones.
Dalmohk Caiun. — Commencing at Dalmore we have in a
field there the cist measuring about 3^ by 2A by 2 feet of one which