Italy in purfuit of game; and he was even now so keen a sportsman, that, having obferved fome partridges, he was going to take a fhot; but Malcolm cautioned him against it, obferving that the firing might be heard by the tenders who were hovering upon the coaft.

As they proceeded through the mountains, Malcolm, to try his refolution, afked him what fhould they do, fhould they fall in with a party of foldiers? He anfwered, "Fight, to be fure." Having afked Malcolm, if he fhould be known in the present drefs, and Malcolm having replied he would, he faid, "Then I will blacken my face with powder." "That, faid Malcolm, would discover you at once." Then faid he, "I must be put into the greateft difhabille poffible." So he pulled off his wig, tied a handkerchief round his head, and put his night cap over it, tore the ruffles from his fhirt, took the buckles out of his fhoes, and made Malcolm fallen them with ftrings; but ftill Malcolm thought he would be known. "I have fo odd a face, faid he, that no man ever faw me, but he would know me again.'

He feemed unwilling to give credit to the horrid narrative of men being murdered in cool blood, after victory had declared for the army commanded by the Duke of Cumberland. He could not allow himfelf to think that a general could be fo barbarous.

When they came within two miles of M'Kinnon's houfe, Malcolm afked if he chofe to fee the Laird, "No, faid he, by no means. I know M Kinnon to be as good and as honest a man as any in the world, but he is not fit for my purpose at prefent. You must conduct me to fome other house; but let it be a gentleman's houfe." Malcolm then determined that they fhould go to his brother in law, Mr. John M'Kinnon, and from thence be conveyed to the main land of Scotland, and claim the afliftance of Macdonald of Scothoufe. The wanderer at first objected to this, because Scothouse was cousin of a perfon

of

of whom he had fufpicions. But he acquiefced in Malcolm's opinion.

When they were near Mr. John McKinnon's houfe, they met a man of the name of Rofs, who had been a foldier in the Highland army. He fixed his eyes fteadily on the wanderer in his disguise, and having at once recognized him, he clapped his hands, and exclaimed, "Alas! is this the cafe." Finding that there was now a difcovery, Malcolm afked, "What is to be done?" "Swear him to fecrefy," anfwered Prince Charles. Upon which Malcolm drew his durk, and on the naked blade made him take a folemn oath, that he would fay nothing of his having feen the wanderer, till his efcape fhould be made public.

Malcolm's fifter, whofe houfe they reached pretty early in the morning, afked him who the perfon was, that was along with him. He faid, it was one Lewis Caw, from Crieff, who being a fugitive like himself for the fame reafon, he had engaged him as his fervant, but that he had fallen fick. Poor man! faid the, I pity him; at the fame time my heart warms to a man of his appearance. Her husband was gone a little way from home; but was expected every minute to return. She fet down to her brother a plentiful Highland breakfast. Prince Charles acted the fervant very well, fitting at a refpe&tful diftance, with his bonnet off. Malcolm then faid to him, "Mr. Caw, you have as much need of this as I have, there is enough for us both; draw nearer, and fhare with me." Upon which he role, made a profound bow, fat down at the table with his fuppofed mafter, and eat very heartily. There came in an old woman, who, after the mode of ancient hofpitality, brought warm water, and washed Malcolm's feet. He defired her to wash the feet of the poor man who attended him; fhe at firft feemed averse to this, from pride, as thinking him beneath her, and in the periphraftic language of the Highlanders and the Irish, faid warmly, "Though I wash your father's fon's feet,

why

why should I wah his father's fon's feet ?" She was however perfuaded to do it.

They then went to bed, and flept for fome time; and when Malcolm awaked, he was told that Mr. John McKinnon, his brother-in-law was in fight. He fprang out to talk to him, before he should fee Prince Charles. After faluting him, Malcolm pointing to the fea, faid, "What John, if the Prince fhould be prifoner on board one of these tenders?" "God forbid!” replied John.-" What, if we had him here?" "I wish we had, anfwered John, we fhould take care of him." "Well John, faid Malcolin, he is in your houfe."-John, in a transport of joy, wanted to run directly in, and pay his obeifance; but Malcolm flopped him, faying, " Now is your time to behave well, and do nothing that can difcover him." John compofed himself, and having fent away all his fervants upon different errands, he was introduced into the prefence of his gueft, and was then defired to go and get ready a boat lying near his houfe, which, though but a small leaky one, they refolved to take rather than go to the Laird of M-Kinnon. John McKinnon however thought otherwife, and upon his return told them, that his chief and Lady M'Kinnon were coming in the Laird's boat. Prince Charles faid to his trufty Malcolm, "I am forry for this, but we must make the beft of it." M'Kinnon then walked up from the fhore, and did homage to the wanderer. His lady waited in a cave, to which they all repaired, and were entertained with cold meat and wine. Mr. Malcolm M.Leod being now fuperfeded by the Laird of M'Kinnon, defired leave to return, which was granted him, and Prince Charles wrote a fhort note, to which he fubfcribed James Thompson, informing his friends that he had got away from Sky, and thanking them for their kindnefs; and he defired this might be fpeedily conveyed to young Rafay and Dr. M Leod, that they might not wait longer in expectation of fceing him again. He bade a cordial adieu to Malcolm, and infilled on his accepting a filver stock buckle, and ten guineas from his purfe,

though,

though, as Malcolm told me, it did not appear to contain more than forty. Malcolm at first begged to be excufed, faying, that he had a few guineas at his fervice; but Prince Charles anfwered, "You will have need of money, and I fhall get enough when I come upon the main land.”

The Laird of M'Kinnon then conveyed him to the oppofite coaft of Knoidart. Old Rafay, to whom intelligence had been fent, was croffing at the same time to Sky; but as they did not know of each other, and each had apprehenfions, the two boats kept aloof. These are the particulars which I have collected concerning the extraordinary concealment and escapes of Prince Charles, in the Hebrides. He was often in imminent danger. The troops traced him from the Long Island, across Sky, to Portree, but there loft him.

An Enquiry into the Situation of the TERRESTIAL

THE

PARADISE.

[By a late Writer.]

HE change made in the appearance of countries and the course of rivers, by the violence of the deluge, cannot poffibly prove an obftacle to our discovering the genuine place of the Terreftial Paradise. Since it is not to be fuppofed that Mofes, who wrote eight hundred and fifty years after the flood, would have given us fuch a minute and particular account of the gar den of Eden, if there had been no marks and indications of it remaining. Besides, he does not in his account of Paradife, make use of antedeluvian names; for the appellation of the rivers, and .countries adjacent, Cufh, Havilah, and others, are of a later date than the flood. So that it appears to have been the intention of Moses to give us, according to the geography of his times, fome account where the garden of Eden, or the Terreftial VOL. XIII,

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Paradife

Paradife was fituated. Nor is it to be doubted, but it may fill be found by a careful attention to his description.

Some eminent modern writers, mifled by the affinity of words, have imagined that they found the name of Pifon preferved in the Pafi Tigris; or rather (as they would have it to favour their hypothefis) the Pifo Tigris; while others take it for granted, that it is the Phafis; as they conclude the Aras to be the Gihon, because both these terms are by the Perfians ufed to fignify any great river. But, if fuch conjectures as thefe are to be taken for folid reafons, Eden may be discovered any where or every where'; fince a conformity of names, either in found or fignification, may be found in all countries. And if this childish method of proof be once admitted, unless under proper reftrictions, it would be no difficult matter to prove, that America was peopled by the immediate defcendants of Noah.

The words Bdolah and Soham, in the Mofaic defcription of Eden, which our tranflators have rendered Bdellium, and the Onyx ftone, afford us but fmall light, being names of particular fubftances, as little known as Havilah, the land faid to produce them. But that we may no longer grope in the dark, we fhall canvas the three different opinions, which feem to deferve our greatest attention.

Some authors of diftinction place the Terreftial Paradife near Damafcus in Syria: but this conjecture is entirely groundlefs; fince it is certain the garden of Eden lies to the Eaftward of the place where Mofes wrote his hiftory, which was probably Arabia Petra; whereas Syria lies to the North of that country; befides, as this fcheme is deftitute of all the marks of the Mofaic description, it ought for that very reason to be rejected.

The fecond hypothefis places Eden in Armenia, between the fources of the Tigris, the Euphrates, the Araxes, and the Phafis; but this account is equally inconfiftent with the former; fince, according to the latest difcoveries, the Phafts does

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