Another Meeting with the foresaid, February 4: 1749.

However, several Questions were
asked at Bellfinlay, to which he
made distinct Answers. He said,
that the Night he lay (naked &and woun-
ded) upon the Field of Battle, which
was a very wet slushy Muir, he was
exposed to the Inclemency of Rain,
Sleet &and Frost by Turns, that he
crawled a little sometimes from
place to place, till at last the
Skin came off from his Knees &and yethe
Palms of both his Hands, that he
endured an Excess of Pain in the
jolting of the Cart to Inverness, &and
that with the jolting he heard the
Bones of this Legs rubbing &and jirk-
ingjerking against one another. He said,
he believed, he ^himself was the single Per-
son, that had been saved on the Field
of Battle, when the wounded were
put to Death (by Orders) in cold Blood;
but that some others, who had got off
the Field, had been saved through yethe Clemency 1173 (1173)
Clemency of particular Officers.

He observed to the Company, that the
big Bones of his Legs were broken &and
shattered^a little above the Ankles, but that the small Bones
had received no Fracture, which had
preserved his Legs from shrinking
up &and growing shorter, &and that out
of one of his Legs a Piece of
Iron had been extracted, he hav-
ing received his Wounds from small
Shot out of the Belly of a Cannon,
&and that, from first to last, there had
been no fewer than four &and twenty
Splinters of Bones taken out of
his Legs. After being brought into
Inverness, he never had the good
Luck to see his Benefactor, Lieuten-
ant Hamilton, who had saved his
Life, when others about him were
knock’dknocked in the Head; but he wishes
much to have the Happiness of see-
ing Hamilton again. Bellfinlay
said, that Robert Nairn was among
the Wounded, who had got off from
the Field of Battle, Nairn’s Legs
being quite safe, but one of his
Arms was almost cut off with Wounds,
that the said Nairn was his Fellow-
prisoner in the same Room with him,
&and^ytthat Nairn (when pretty well recovered)
made his Escape out of the sdsaid Room. Bellfinlay 1174 (1174)
Bellfinlay added, that Mr Nairn had
almost died of a Mortification in his
Back, when bed-rid in his Wounds,
&and he believed, Mr Nairn would ne-
ver have the right Use of his woun-
ded Arm. The Ladies in &and about
Inverness were exceedingly kind
&and beneficent to Bellfinlay &and Mr
Nairn in their woeful Confine-
ment and Distress. Bellfinlay has
recovered the Use of his Legs so
well, that, in his Journey to EdrEdinburgh,
he walked from his own House to
Inverary, being no less than sixty
long Miles; but he is still afraid,
that there are some more Splin-
ters of Bones to be taken out. He
is a tall, strapping, beautyfulbeautiful young
Man; but has contracted a Delicacy
of Constitution with his Sufferings.