This gentleman was at the time Professor of Medicine in King's College, Aberdeen, and son of Dr.James Gregory, distinguished in science as the inventor of the reflecting telescope.

With such a family it may seem our friend Rob could have had little communion.

But civil war is a species of misery which introduces men to strange bed-fellows.

Dr.Gregory thought it a point of prudence to claim kindred, at so critical a period, with a man so formidable and influential.

He invited Rob Roy to his house, and treated him with so much kindness, that he produced in his generous bosom a degree of gratitude which seemed likely to occasion very inconvenient effects.
The Professor had a son about eight or nine years old,--a lively, stout boy of his age,--with whose appearance our Highland Robin Hood was much taken.