Lord Lovat, writing to Edinburgh from Beaufort Castle near Beauly (something like 200 miles away?) in 1744:

I have fallen upon an excellent method for bringing north the spinet. I have a strong fellow, a servant in my labourings that speaks the language and I resolve to send him south to carry the spinet north on his back. He will buckle it across his shoulders and tye it on with ropes like a pedlars pack.

- Marjorie Plant, The Domestic Life of Scotland in the Eighteenth Century, 1952