"Well for King James;" answered Johnstone: "but I am sorry for Your Lordship." "If it is well for him," answered the dying man, "it matters the less for me." He never spoke again; but when, half an hour later, Lord Dunfermline and some other friends came to the spot, they thought that they could still discern some faint remains of life.
The body, wrapped in two plaids, was carried to the Castle of Blair, [367] Mackay, who was ignorant of Dundee's fate, and well acquainted with Dundee's skill and activity, expected to be instantly and hotly pursued, and had very little expectation of being able to save even the scanty remains of the vanquished army.

He could not retreat by the pass: for the Highlanders were already there.

He therefore resolved to push across the mountains towards the valley of the Tay.

He soon overtook two or three hundred of his runaways who had taken the same road.

Most of them belonged to Ramsay's regiment, and must have seen service.