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Orning, to look for the hoof-marks of the horses; and awful it was to
them to find not one foot-print on heather or grass. The witnesses
attested the whole story on oath before a magistrate; and fearful were
the expectations held by the whole country-side about the coming events
of the Scotch rebellion. "It now comes out that two other persons had
seen something of the sort in the interval--_viz._, in 1743--but had
concealed it, to escape the insults to which their neighbours were
subjected. Mr. Wren, of Wilton Hall, and his farm servant, saw, one
summer evening, a man and a dog on the mountain, pursuing some horses
along a place so steep that a horse could hardly by any possibility keep
a footing on it. Their speed was prodigious, and their disappearance at
the south end of the fell so rapid, that Mr. Wren and the servant went
up, the next morning, to find the body of the man who must have been
killed. Of man, horse, or dog, they found not a trace and they came down
and held their tongues. When they did speak, they fared not much better
for having twenty-six sworn comrades in their disgrace. "As for the
explanation, the editor of the _Lonsdale Magazine_ declared (vol. ii.,
p. 313) that it was discovered that on the Midsummer Eve of 1745 the
rebels were 'exercising on the western coast of Scotland, whose
movements had been reflected by some transparent vapour, similar to the
Fata Morgana.' This is not much in the way of explanation; but it is, as
far as we know, all that can be had at present. These facts, however,
brought out a good many more; as the spectral march of the