Soon the vulgar imagination was so completely occupied by plaids, targets, and claymores, that, by most Englishmen, Scotchman and Highlander were regarded as synonymous words.

Few people seemed to be aware that, at no remote period, a Macdonald or a Macgregor in his tartan was to a citizen of Edinburgh or Glasgow what an Indian hunter in his war paint is to an inhabitant of Philadelphia or Boston.

Artists and actors represented Bruce and Douglas in striped petticoats.

They might as well have represented Washington brandishing a tomahawk, and girt with a string of scalps.

At length this fashion reached a point beyond which it was not easy to proceed.