man counselled a certain thane to load an ass with a chest full of

gold, and to build his castle with the money at the third hawthorn- tree at which the animal should stop." The ass stopped where Cawdor Castle is built, and the tree was enclosed. The thane's only child, a little girl, was carried off by Campbell of Inverliver, on Loch Awe. In his flight he was overtaken by the Cawdors. Being hard pressed, "he cried out in Gaelic, ' It is a far cry to Loch Awe, and a distant help to the Campbells,' a saying which

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��became proverbial in the north to express imminent clanger and distant relief." 1 He won the day, however, and the child when she grew 1 up married a son of the Earl of Argyle. From them is descended that " prosperous gentleman," the present Thane or Earl of Cawdor.

I passed through the great iron door which Boswell mentions, and other strong doors too, and climbed up the staircase which is built in the thickness of the wall. I was shown the place in the roof where Lord Lovat, when fleeing from justice early in his bad career, had lain in hiding for some weeks. I saw, moreover, more

1 Boswell's Hebrides, e<\. by R. Carrutherr,, p. 85.

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