Post-runners to Gairloch--Dr Mackenzie's account--Donald Charles--Roderick M'Lennan--William Cross--M'Leay--Iain Mor am Post--General Wade's road--Bridges in Gairloch--Road from Gairloch to Poolewe--The Dowager Lady Mackenzie's account of road-making--Destitution Committee contribute to road-making--Road to Fionn loch 147 CHAPTER XI.--SUPERSTITIONS OF ISLE MAREE. Isle Maree conspicuous--The wishing-tree--Her Majesty's offering--St Maelrubha permitted sacrifices of bulls--Continued to 1678--Latterly associated with cure of insanity--Treatment of lunatics--Still continued--Dr Mitchell's description--Circular enclosure supposed to be Druidical--Graves of the prince and princess--The well--Description of the wishing-tree--Trees of Isle Maree--Probability of the legend of Isle Maree--Name of island derived from St Maelrubha--St Maelrubha worshipped 150 CHAPTER XII.--SUPERSTITIONS OF ISLE MAREE--_continued._ Druidical sacrifices engrafted on Christianity--Resort to Isle Maree for cure of lunacy probably ancient--Parallel superstitions--Bull sacrifice at Kirkcudbright--Sacrifices of bulls not confined to the saint's day--Descriptions of proceedings for cure of lunatics--MacCulloch's description--No form of words--Recent cases--St Maelrubha and St Ruffus identical--Mad dog dipped in the well--Sad consequences--Quotations as to Pagan practices engrafted on Christianity 153 CHAPTER XIII.--SUPERSTITIONS GENERALLY. Highlanders' surroundings suggest superstition--Gradual diminution of it--Older superstitions--Loch Maree water cure--The Fox Point--Coins found--The Cathair mor and Sitheanan Dubha--Gairloch fairy tale--The Shiant Isles' fairy--Eilean Suainne--Fairies seen on Isle Ewe in 1883--Lights and music of fairies noticed at Mellon Charles--William M'Lean gets a bagpipe chanter from the fairies--The Gille Dubh of Loch a Druing--Superstitious fancies--The Loch of the Beast--Evidence of the appearance of the beast--Proceedings for its suppression--Rorie and the mermaid 158 CHAPTER XIV.--WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC.