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Invermoriston lies on the west side of Loch ness and at the E. end of Glen Moriston, the traditional country of the Grants. Glen Moriston, a well-wooded glen up to Loch
Cluanie. now has all the appurtenances of a hydro-electric scheme, but retains its beauty.
A little east of Torgyle,
farther up the glen, a small cairn at the edge of the road leads
to mysterious footprints. It is said that in 1827 an itinerant preacher. Finlay Munro, was interrupted while holding an open-air service; the preacher declared that he spoke the truth, and to prove it
the very ground would bear witness from him. His two footprints still remain beside a larger cairn to the west of Torgyle on the N. bank of the river is Aonach, the site of an inn where Johnson and
Boswell stayed in 1773.
Near Ceannacroc bridge on the roadside is a cairn in memory of the death in 1746 of Roderick Mackenzie, who allowed himself to be identified as Prince Charles Edward Stuart and drew off the redcoats
from the pursuit of the Prince. From Ceannacroc, a path leads N. up the R. Doe to a cave where the Prince hid in July 1746, guarded by the famous Seven Men of Glen Moriston.
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