As the wind was perfectly fair, we sailed along the canal for about eight miles without any impediment.  It is deep and broad, and would allow a very much larger vessel than our little yacht to pass through it.  It was on the banks of the river Lochy that a body of King George's soldiers first encountered the Macdonnells of Glengarry, who were up in arms for Charles Edward, when the former, being greatly overpowered, had to yield themselves prisoners.