Every place is full of idle people, accustomed to arms, and lazy in everything but rapines and depredations.

As _buddel_ or _aquavitae_ houses are to be found everywhere through the country, so in these they saunter away their time, and frequently consume there the returns of their illegal purchases.

Here the laws have never been executed, nor the authority of the magistrate ever established.

Here the officer of the law neither dare nor can execute his duty, and several places are about thirty miles from lawful persons.

In short, here is no order, no authority, no government." The period of the rebellion, 1715, approached soon after Rob Roy had attained celebrity.