a part
of Benalder, full of great stones and crevices, and some scattered wood
interspersed. The habitation called the Cage, in the face of that
mountain, was within a small thick bush of wood. There were first some
rows of trees laid down, in order to level a floor for the habitation;
and as the place was steep, this raised the lower side to an equal
height with the other; and these trees, in the way of joists or planks,
were levelled with earth and gravel. There were betwixt the trees,
growing naturally on their own roots, some stakes fixed in the earth,
which, with the trees, were interwoven with ropes, made of heath and
birch twigs, up to the top of the Cage, it being of a round or rather
oval shape; and the whole thatched and covered over with fog.[110] This
whole fabric hung, as it were, by a large tree, which reclined from the
one end, all along the roof to the other, and which gave it the name of
the Cage, and by chance there happened to be two stones at a small
distance from one another, in the side next the precipice, resembling
the pillars of a chimney where the fire was placed. The smoke had its
vent out here, all along the face of the rock, which was so much of the
same colour, that one could discover no difference in the clearest day.
The Cage was no larger than to contain six or seven persons; four of
whom were frequently employed playing at cards, one idle looking on, one
baking, and another firing bread and cooking. Here His Royal Highness
remained till the 13th of September, when he was informed that the
vessels for receiving and carrying him to France were arrived at
Lochnanuagh. The Prince set out immediately; and travelling only by
night, arrived at Borodale, near Lochnanuagh, on the 19th of September,
and embarked there on the 20th.

FOOTNOTES:

[109] Grazings.

[110] Moss.

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