We notice, however, that Sir Walter Scott, in his recently-published version of the story of Macbeth, states the murder to have been committed at "a great castle near Inverness," in which he is corroborated by Bæthius, who says, the castle stood upon an eminence south-east of Inverness.

Their road, and they chose the first one which led them forth of the town, wound up between a row of hedges and pollard trees to an eminence form which, when they paused for breath, they had a view of the lights of the town.

But now that military art hath knit those granite ribs anew,now that the beautiful eminence rears once more its crested head, like a sculptured Cybele, with a coronet of towers,new feelings, and an altered scale of admiration wait upon its glories.

Next morning we rose from a breakfastthe meat part of it having been furnished from the German commissaryto find twenty lancers exercising their horses in a lovely little natural arena, walled by hills, just below the small eminence whereon the house stood.