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vi . -RSB- Note C. -- The Loch Lomond Expedition . The Loch Lomond expedition was judged worthy to form a separate pamphlet , which I have not seen ; but , as quoted by the historian Rae , it must be delectable . `` On the morrow , being Thursday the 13th , they went on their expedition , and about noon came to Inversnaid , the place of danger , where the Paisley men and those of Dumbarton , and several of the other companies , to the number of an hundred men , with the greatest intrepidity leapt on shore , got up to the top of the mountains , and stood a considerable time , beating their drums all the while ; but no enemy appearing , they went in quest of their boats , which the rebels had seized , and having casually lighted on some ropes and oars hid among the shrubs , at length they found the boats drawn up a good way on the land , which they hurled down to the loch . Such of them as were not damaged they carried off with them , and such as were , they sank and hewed to pieces . That same night they returned to Luss , and thence next day to Dumbarton , from whence they had at first set out , bringing along with them the whole boats they found in their way on either side of the loch , and in the creeks of the isles , and mooring them under the cannon of the castle . During this expedition , the pinnaces discharging their patararoes , and the men their small-arms , made such a thundering noise , through the multiplied rebounding echoes of the vast mountains on both sides of the loch , that the MacGregors were cowed and frighted away to the rest of the rebels who were encamped at Strath Fillan . ''