Here the corpse commenced its progress toward its appointed home on the coast, and people followed in multitudes to give it a partial convoy, all of whom had to be entertained.

It took altogether a fortnight to bury poor Dundonald, and great expense must have been incurred.

This, however, is looked back to at Inverness as the last of the real grand old Highland funerals.

Such notions of what is due to the memory of the departed have now become unusual if not obsolete.

I myself witnessed the first decided change in this matter.