sition a number of head-stones which time and
weather had either displaced or Darwin's worms had covered up. It was
only five or six years ago that a Committee was formed, which in a
regular manner, and with the consent of all parties interested, took in
charge the upkeep of the burial-ground, with the aid of public
subscription. A head-stone of great interest to antiquarians is one
with figures of Adam and Eve sculptured in relief, while above these
figures an angel is represented. The tree carved on the other side of
the stone is evidently the tree of good and evil, and the whole
represents in a crude way the expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise.
This Adam and Eve stone is considered very rare, there being very few
known throughout the country. This one differs from the others in the
absence of the serpent, which is usually represented on them. Another
monument of considerable interest is to be seen within the chapel. It
is a memorial tablet recently erected by the present Laird of
Ardvoirlich upon the wall of the east gable and containing the
following inscription:--"This chapel, dedicated in early times to St.
Fillan, the leper, has been, since the year 1586, the burial-place of
the sept or clan of Stewart of Ardvoirlich." Here follow the names of
those buried beneath, with the dates of their decease. On glancing
over the names there recorded, one will notice the name of Major James
Stewart, and will remember that it is to the same memory that a stone
still stands erected on the south side of the loch, about three miles
up. We there read that this Major James Stewart was temporarily
interred, and thereafter removed to his final resting-place at Dundurn.
This member of the clan seems to have been of a fiery, irascible, and
adventurous nature, and Sir Walter Scott, while in this neighbourhood,
found sufficient material in connection with this personage to
reproduce his likeness in his Allan M'Aulay of the _Legend of
Montrose_. In his introduction to this romance the author gives an
interesting account of his character, and sets before us two different
versions of the part he acted in the death of Lord Kilpont; indeed, one
will look upon the romantic scenery of this district with redoubled
interest after a perusal of this work of the great novelist. With
reference to this Major Stewart's tomb-stone on the side of the loch,
which has just been referred to, the legend is that the Major died a
natural death a