upon such occasions, is evident from the stories of armies in the air, and other spectral phenomena with which history abounds.  Such an apparition is said to have been witnessed upon the side of Southfell mountain, between Penrith and Keswick, upon the 23d June, 1744, by two persons, William Lancaster of Blakehills, and Daniel Stricket his servant, whose attestation to the fact, with a full account of the apparition, dated the 21st of July, 1745, is printed in Clarke’s Survey of the Lakes.  The apparition consisted of several troops of horse moving in regular order, with a steady rapid motion, making a curved sweep around the fell, and seeming to the spectators to disappear over the ridge of the mountain.  Many persons witnessed this phenomenon, and observed the last, or last but one, of the supposed troop, occasionally leave his rank, and pass, at a gallop, to the front, when he resumed the steady pace.  The curious appearance, making the necessary allowance for imagination, may be perhaps sufficiently accounted for by optical deception.”

171.  Shingly.  Gravelly, pebbly.

173.  Thunderbolt.  The 1st ed. has “thunder too.”

188.  Framed.  The reading of the 1st ed.; commonly misprinted “formed,” which occurs in 195.

190.  Limbs.  The 1st ed. has “limb.”

191.  Inch-Cailliach.  Scott says:  “Inch-Cailliach, the Isle of Nuns, or of Old Women, is a most beautiful island at the lower extremity of Loch Lomond.  The church belonging to the former nunnery was long used as the place of worship for the parish of Buchanan, but scarce any vestiges of it now remain.  The burial-ground continues to be used, and contains the family places of sepulture of several neighboring clans.  The monuments of the lairds of Macgregor, and of other families claiming a descent from the old Scottish King Alpine, are most remarkable.  The Highlanders are as zealous of their rights of sepulture as may be expected from a people whose whole laws and government, if clanship can be called so, turned upon the single principle of family descent.  ‘May his ashes be scattered on the water,’ was one of the deepest and most solemn imprecations which they used against an enemy.” [See a detailed description of the funeral ceremonies of a Highland chieftain in the Fair Maid of Perth.]

203.  Dwelling low.  That is, burial-place.

207.  Each clansman’s execration, etc.  The Ms. reads: 

    “Our warriors, on his worthless bust,
     Shall speak disgrace and woe;”

and below: 

    “Their clattering targets hardly strook;
     And first they muttered low.”

212.  Stook.  One of the old forms of struck.  In the early eds. of Shakespeare, we find struck, stroke, and strook (or strooke) for the past tense, and all these, together with stricken, strucken, stroken, and strooken, for the participle.  Cf.  Milton, Hymn of Nativity, 95: