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LONDON:

R. CLAY, PRINTER, BREAD-STREET-HILL.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

VOL. II.

PERTHSHIRE.-Parallel between the Swiss and Celts...Moss of Kincardine... Lord Kames...Castle

of Doune....Hazardous Escape from Imprisonment...Cambus Wallace.... Dunblane....Battle of

Sherriffmuir....Mineral Spring...Callender.... Bracklin Bridge.... Baal-tein Rites....Scenery of the

Trosachs... Loch Katrine...Female Heroism...Clans... Pass of Leni...Balquhidder... Lochearn...Loch-

tay... Taymouth... Glenlyon... Castle Menzies... Grandtully Castle... Dunkeld... Cathedral... Bishops...

Pleasure Grounds... Perth....The Tay....Moncrief Hill....Kinnoull....Pitkaithly....Scone Palace...

Assassination of James I...Coronation Chair...Gowrie Conspiracy...Raid of Ruthven... Hunting-

tower...The Maiden's Leap...The Royal Welcome...Kinfauns Castle...Glammis Castle... Blair

Athol...Killicrankie... Battle... Death of Dundee...Exploit of the Athol Brigade.

INVERNESS-SHIRE.-General Character....The Great Glen...Caledonian Canal....Inverness....

Clachnacuddin...Public Buildings... Northern Institution...Public Walks... Education... Historical

Sketch...Objects of Interest... Vitrifications... Culloden Muir... Battle...Devastation of the Country...

Escape of Prince Charles... Fort George... Fortrose... Beauly... Falls of Kilmorag...Priory... Lochness

...Inverfarigaig... Altsay Burn... Raid of Cillie Christ... Falls of Foyers...Castle of Urquhart...Fort

Augustus... Traditions... Invergarry Castle...Tobar-nan-ceann... Murder of the Family of Keppoch...

Ben Nevis...Fort William... Inverlochy Castle... Battle described...Glen Roy...Parallel Roads...

Locheil... Interview with Prince Charles...Anecdotes illustrative of Highland Character...Legend

of the Comyns...Castle of Loch-an-Eilan...Cottage of Kinrara... Belleville...Lochleven...St. Mungo's

Isle... Eillean-nacorak... Balahulish Ferry.

ARGYLLSHIRE.-General Description... Productions...Scenery...Glenco....Massacre of the Mac-

donalds.... Ben-cruachan....Loch-awe....Loch Creran....Barcaldine Castle....Stewarts of Appin, of

Ardsheil, of Invernahyle...Paul Jones... Anecdotes... Ruins of Beregonium...Ardchattan Priory...

Island of Lismore...Castle of Dunstaffnage...Sound of Kerrara... Haco's Defeat... Goalan Castle...

The Brooch of Lorn...Oban...Loch-awe... Fraoch-eilan...Legend... Pass of Awe...Battle... Anecdotes...

Kilchurn Castle...The fatal Spring... Vale of Glenorchy...Inverary Castle... Biographical Anecdotes

of the Campbells of Argyll...Loch Fine... Herring Fishing...Tarbert Castle...Highland Marriage...

Pass of Glencroe...Singular Cavern...The Foot-plough... Loch Goil... Beautiful Scenery... Loch Long

...Ardgarten..." Lord Ullin's Daughter"...The Mac Farlanes.

DUNBARTONSHIRE, OR, THE LENNOX.-Loch Lomond... Ben Lomond...Rob Roy...In-

versnaid... Battle of Glenfruin... Proscription of the Macgregors... The Bagpipe...Account of Rob Roy

Macgregor...Anecdotes of him... Dunbarton Castle... Daring Action...Castle surprised...Traditional

Origin of the Rock... Dr. Smollett... Buchanan...Dalnottar Hill... Dunglas Castle.

N.B. The above Volume will be found to contain :—Sketches of History; Statistics; Society and Manners;
Education, Literature, and Science; Mineralogy, Botany, Geology; Biographical and Characteristic Notices;
Anecdotes and Traditions; Popular Customs and Amusements; Arts, Agriculture, Produce, Manufactures;
with much diversified matter; the results of personal intercourse with the country and people of Scotland.
The Poetry interspersed in this Volume, unless where otherwise marked, is original.

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* Ravenscraig Castle, too late to be fully noticed in its proper place, is situated on a bold promontory overhanging the sea, near the ancient town of Dysart. It is a place of great antiquity, having been presented by James III. to William St. Clair, Earl of Orkney. The situation and appearance of these ruins are highly picturesque; but the dangerous nature of the coast is sufficiently apparent in the storm-scene so forcibly delineated in the fore-ground of the picture.

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SCOTLAND.

"Land of brown heath and shaggy wood-
Land of the mountain and the flood!"

""Twas here the Son of Fingal towered along,

And midst his mountains rolled the flood of song;
'Twas here the heroes of that song arose,

And Roman Eagles found unvanquished foes."

PERTHSHIRE.

THE County of Perth, one of the largest in Scotland, is proverbial as the favoured province in which Nature has been prodigal of her gifts. The Highlands of Perthshire, with their fabled lakes and rivers, and woods and fountains-their feudal and monastic ruins-their popular legends and traditions-present a field peculiarly rich in all that can charm the eye, improve the mind, or flatter the imagination. In proof of these attractions, it is only necessary to advert to the numerous strangers, from every nation in Europe, who are annually attracted to these regions of "fell and flood," where the magnificence of Nature and the primitive simplicity of the inhabitants offer the most pleasing contrasts, and

At the commencement of the second volume of this work, it is proper to remind the reader, that, owing to the limited number of pages to which the Author is restricted, various topics of inferior interest must be omitted, others only slightly alluded to, in order that the connexion between the text and illustrations may not be interrupted, but mutually serve to explain each other. The Painter, in illustrating the scenery of the Highlands, has been careful in the selection of his subjects, so as to present a faithful transcript of that stupendous scenery with which the glory of the Gaël is identified, whilst the Author has made it his study to frame his narrative according to the scenes through which he moves, and the historical suggestions to which they give rise.

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unfold those interesting sources from which poetry has drawn many of her wildest themes, and history some of her noblest achievements.

With the bold chain of the Grampians swelling in lofty gradation before us; the dark lakes gleaming in the distance; and the Forth rolling its fantastic meanders at our feet; herds in the valley, and flocks on the hill; immemorial forests, casting their broad shadow along the mountain sides; and crumbling rocks, that could once arrest an army in its march-all proclaim that sacred frontier from which the Roman legions recoiled like "waves from the rock," and where Freedom looked proudly down from her hills, as from an impregnable citadel. But whatever the lavish hand of nature may have bestowed on these native bulwarks—whether she has enriched them with precious ore, girdled them with forests, or rendered them subservient to pasture or the plough-their great charm and patriotic boast is, that they are peopled by a race who never yielded to a foreign yoke, nor pledged their fealty to a stranger. If they have suffered the calamities of war, these calamities have been the results of internal division, never of conquest. The first altars raised to Liberty were in the glens and mountains before us; and there-so long as the name continues to influence the human conduct and warm the heart-these altars will be found. Like the Swiss cantons, the Highland clans, wherever united, have been invincible; but between the two people there is this distinction: - the latter never "surrendered" their liberty; the former "recovered" it when lost. The Swiss expelled their oppressors, but not till after they had been enslaved; but the Celts, by repulsing them at the frontier, preserved their independence from pollution, and thus vindicated their pretensions as an unconquered people.

But, without following up the parallel to the extent to which it might be carried, we return to the more express objects in view, and prosecute our journey to the Trosachs-those haunted localities which the poetry and romance of our own times have invested with peculiar charms.

"For there-on every wild and wondrous scene,
The Wizard's many-coloured touch hath been."

Continuing to ascend the valley of the Forth, the road passes the mansion of Craig Forth, crosses the river about two miles above Stirling, at the Bridge of Drip, and then winds for several miles through a tract of country which, within the last sixty years, the labour and ingenuity of man have converted from a dreary waste into a fertile garden. The Moss of Kincardine, the original name of this subdued waste, has undergone a thorough metamorphosis-a healthy population have displaced the heath-fowl and the bittern;

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