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EDINBURGH, KINROSS, PERTH, DUNKELD, BLAIR ATHOLL.

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Edinburgh, Published July 1, 1841 by Adam & Charles Black, 27 North Bridge.

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THIRTEENTH TOUR.

EDINBURGH TO INVERNESS BY KINROSS-PERTH—DUNKELD—BLAIR

ATHOLL.

Leaving Edinburgh by the Queensferry Road, the tourist crosses the Water of Leith by Dean Bridge, a superb edifice of four arches, each ninety feet in span. Below, on the right, is St. Bernard's Well. On the left stands the village of the Water of Leith; and at a short distance are two buildings of great elegance—the Hospital endowed by John Watson, W.S. for the maintenance and education of destitute children, and the new Orphan Hospital, opened in 1833. The road now passes the new Episcopal Chapel, and on the right Dean House, (Sir J. Nisbet,) Craigleith, (Bonar, Esq.,) and Craigleith Quarry, from which the stone employed in building the New Town of Edinburgh was chiefly procured. At a short distance to the left is Ravelston, (Lady Murray Keith,) and Craigcrook, (Lord Jeffrey.) About four miles from Edinburgh stands Barnton House, (W. R. Ramsay, Esq.) A mile farther on, the tourist crosses the Almond by Cramond Bridge, and passes, on the left, Craigiehall, (Hope Vere, Esq.,) and on the right Newhall, (Scott Moncrieff, Esq.) On the shore is the village of Cramond, and the entrance to Dalmeny Park, (Earl Rosebery.) The banks of the river Almond in this neighbourhood are very beautiful, and the scenery about the old bridge of Craigiehall is very romantic. Passing in succession

Dalmeny Kirk, a little to the left, 7 miles, and Ha's Inn, 8 miles from Edinburgh, you enter South Queens-ferry, which was erected into a royal borough by Malcolm Canmore, and derived its name from Margaret his queen. Here are some ruins of a monastery of Carmelite Friars, founded in 1330. On the left is Duddingstone House, (G. H. Dundas, Esq.,) and a little to the south, the ruins of Dundas Castle, a building of great antiquity, which has been in the Dundas family upwards of 700 years. The ferry across the Forth belonged, before the Reformation, to the Abbot of Dunfermline, and was at that period sold by his orders to a joint stock company.* Three miles west from Queensferry stands Hopetoun House, a building of great splendour, and possessing a delightful prospect. In the narrow strait at Queensferry, there is the little island of Inch Garvie, on which a fort was established during the last war. On this island, previous to the reign of Charles II., the principal state prison was placed. Upon a promontory, on the northern coast, stands the small village of North Queensferry. It is remarkable as the place where Oliver Cromwell first encamped on crossing the Forth, in 1651. On this promontory, which is called the Cruicks, there is a lazaretto, where goods landed on this part of the coast, from tropical climates, have to pass quarantine. In the immediate neighbourhood is Rosyth Castle, a huge square tower, situated close by the sea. It was the ancient seat of the Stuarts of Rosyth, a branch of the royal family,

*The agent appointed to dispose of the ferry divided it into sixteen shares, and offered the same for sale. The project was immediately successful; the shares were eagerly purchased; the agent continued to sell as long as he found persons willing to buy; and, scandalous to relate, there is evidence still in existence that he actually sold eighteen sixteenth shares of the Queensferry passage.

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