They saw Inverawe and his son fall, and other men whom they knew.
When they reached Inveraray they told all their friends of the vision
they had just seen. They also took down the names of those they had
seen fall, and the time and date of the occurrence. The well-known
Danish physician, Sir William Hart, was, together with an Englishman
and a servant, walking round the Castle of Inveraray. These men saw
the same phenomena, and confirmed the statements made by the two
ladies. Weeks after the gazette corroborated their statements in its
account of the attempt made on Ticonderoga. Every detail was correct
in the vision, down to the actual number of the killed and wounded.
But there was sorrow throughout Argyll long before the gazette
appeared.
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We now give the best attainable version of a yet more famous legend,
"The Tyrone Ghost".
The literary history of "The Tyrone Ghost" is curious. In 1802 Scott
used the tale as the foundation of his ballad, The Eve of St. John,
and referred to the tradition of a noble Irish family in a note. In
1858 the subject was discussed in Notes and Queries.
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