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after the courts o f law had made an adjudication in his favor, he
was obliged to fupport their decree by force of arms.
Sail again down the Sound, which in general is about four miles
broad: the coaft on both iides Hopes and is patched with corn-
land. The northern coaft is Morvern, the celebrated country of
Fingal.
Leave on that fide Loch-aylin, a fafe harbour, with a moft con-
trafted entrance. A little farther is Cafile-ardtornijh, a ruin on a
low headland jutting into the found, where in 1461, John Earl of
Rofs, ■ and lord of the iiles, lived in regal ftate *. His treaty with
Edward IV. is dated, ex caftello nofiro A rd-thornis 0 £trls. 19. A. D.
1461 +.
On the Mull fide is Mac-allefter’s bay, and below that, where
the found opens to the Eaft is Cafile-duart, once the feat of the
Macleanes, lords o f the iiland; but now garrifoned by a lieutenant
and a detachment from Fort-William. Morvern, near Ardtornijh,
begins to grow lofty and wooded; and Mtfll beyond this caftle
appears very mountanous.
Traverfe the broad water o f Loch-linnhe, which leads up to
Lochaber. Have a fine view of the vaft mountains, and the pic-
turelque hills of Glen-co. Pafs the fouthern end of Lifmore, and
fteer north between that ifle and Middle Lorn. Sail by the ifle of
Kerrera, noted for the death o f Alexander II. in 1249, while he
lay there with a mighty fleet meditating the conqueft of the Hebrides,
then pofiefied by the Norwegians.
• Guthrie, iv. 68. + Rjmer’s Fad. xi. 487.
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