ON the summit of Meilchan, about three hundred yards off the main road between Rannoch and Dalnacardoch, is to be found a cave, where the bonnie but unfortunate Prince Charles Edward Stuart is said to have lurked previous to his embarkation for France. After the terrible massacre on Culloden (locally better known by the name of Drumossie) Moor, he wandered through the Highlands like a hare before the hounds. Pursued by the terrible sleuth-hounds of the Duke of Cumberland, he experienced many hair’s-breadth escapes, and was several times on the point of being captured. But it is unnecessary for me here to dwell upon the unlucky prince’s many adventures. Enough to say that, hard pressed and hunted as he was, he succeeded in eluding his enemies, and the following year escaped to France. Over the length and breadth of Scotland the name of "Bonnie Prince Charlie" is a household word; and over all Albyn his fame is handed down in song and in story.

Prince Charlie’s cave is situated on the summit of a small green hillock, and is composed of solid limestone rock. It is rather a difficult and hazardous matter to obtain access to it, the mouth of the cavern being flooded with water, and the arched entrance exceedingly low.

So far as I understand, the cave has never yet been explored, although its exploration has several times been attempted; the last occasion being about twelve or fourteen years ago.

A young gentleman, a member of a shooting-party, then volunteered to enter it; and, with that object in view, started to creep on hands and knees into the cavern.

His exit was more rapid than his entrance, and he made his reappearance before his companions, pale and trembling. On being asked what he had heard or seen, he declared that he had beheld, crouching at the further end of the cave, the figure of a tall, lean man, dressed in the Highland garb; who had appeared to threaten him should he offer to penetrate further into the cavern.