March about Noon
We left _ Inverness _ the last Day of _ April _ , and encamp 'd near a little Town call 'd _ Forrest _ , the Place where , as Tradition still confidently avers , the Witches met _ Mackbeth _ , and greeted him with their diabolical Auspices . But this Story is so naturally display 'd in a Play of the immortal _ Shakespear _ , that I need not descend here to any farther Particulars . Here Sir _ Thomas _ receiv 'd Intelligence , that the _ Highlanders _ design 'd to encamp upon the _ Spey _ , near the Laird of _ Grant 's _ Castle . Whereupon we began our March about Noon ; and the next Day , about the Break thereof , we came to that River , where we soon discover 'd the _ Highlanders _ by their Fires . Sir _ Thomas _ immediately , on Sight of it , issued his Orders for our fording the River , and falling upon them as soon after as possible . Both were accordingly perform 'd , and with so good Order , Secrecy and Success , that _ Cannon _ and _ Balfour _ , their Commanders , were obliged to make their Escape naked . They were about one Thousand in Number , of which were kill 'd about three Hundred ; we pursued them , till they got up _ Crowdale-Hill , _ where we lost them in a Fog .