He Told
Macgill, One Of His Followers, That If He Intercepted That
Dangerous Intelligence, By Catching The Courier, He Would Give Him
Certain Lands In Mull.
Upon this promise, Macgill pursued the
messenger, and either killed, or stopped him; and his posterity,
till very lately, held the lands in Mull.
The alarm being thus prevented, he came unexpectedly upon Macneil.
Chiefs were in those days never wholly unprovided for an enemy. A
fight ensued, in which one of their followers is said to have given
an extraordinary proof of activity, by bounding backwards over the
brook of Grissipol. Macneil being killed, and many of his clan
destroyed, Maclean took possession of the Island, which the
Macneils attempted to conquer by another invasion, but were
defeated and repulsed.
Maclean, in his turn, invaded the estate of the Macneils, took the
castle of Brecacig, and conquered the Isle of Barra, which he held
for seven years, and then restored it to the heirs.
CASTLE OF COL
From Grissipol, Mr. Maclean conducted us to his father's seat; a
neat new house, erected near the old castle, I think, by the last
proprietor. Here we were allowed to take our station, and lived
very commodiously, while we waited for moderate weather and a fair
wind, which we did not so soon obtain, but we had time to get some
information of the present state of Col, partly by inquiry, and
partly by occasional excursions.
Col is computed to be thirteen miles in length, and three in
breadth.
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