Sinópse: Excerpt from Macalpine, or on Scottish Ground, Vol. 1: A Novel The common belief was, that some hag or witch had cast a blight upon the road and upon those who made it, for having by its cutting dispos sessed her of a but at the mouth of the pass, in which she had delighted to spend her splenetic life. The fortunes of the laird, to continue the idle report, had visibly declined since the day the hag had prophesied their fall and although upon the road ceasing to be used, the hag was specially privileged to veer down upon her old site, and thereupon ven tured upon revealing some after-luck for the fallen lairds of Morven, still the blight was on the family as well as on the road; and the men and women who congregated in the village and the cottages and by the hill-sides, thought of the hag of Morven Pass when they heard of each new blow to the tottering house of Mac alpine. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.