Scottish Scenery: or, Sketches in verse, descriptive of scenes chiefly in the Highlands of Scotland: accompanied with notes and illustrations; and ornamented with engravings by W. Byrne ... from views painted by G. Walker, etc

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l-<'\''<' -. . CadeU, ScJ)avœs, for _Df -ÆZHZE !_r To-jr thromi - 0 / /< / SCOTTISH SCENERY: OR, SKETCHES IN VERSE, DESCRIPTIVE OF SCENES CHIEFLY IN THE HIGHLANDS OF SCOTLAND: ACCOMPANIED WITH NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS; AND ORNAMENTED WITH ENGRAVINGS BY W. BYRNE, F.S.A. FROM VIEWS PAINTED BY G.WALKER, F.A.S.E. BY JAMES CRIRIE, D.D. DALTON, DUMFRIES-SHIRE. SECRETI TACITA CAPIOR DULCEDINE RUMS, qUAE. SPECTARE JUVIT, PLACUIT DESCRIBERE VERSU. rANISS. LONDON: ipruitcD for Z. CaUtll urn. aim WSU DatotesS , in tf.e s>trano. 1803. Printed by A» Strahan, New-Street Square. A 2 T O THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF DALKEITH, LORD LIEUTENANT OF THE COUNTY OF DUMFRIES. MY LORD, Y our patriotic and vigorous exertions in the service of your country at a critical period of its history, your persevering attention to its interests since the return of peace, and the virtues of your private character, have induced the author of the following Sketches to submit them to the judgement of the public, under the patronage of your name.

The object, which he proposed to himself, was to express the feelings of the heart, on the survey of picturesque beauty, and the scenes of past events pre- DEDICATION. sented to his view, in the different parts of the country which he visited. If his labours shall, in any degree, fulfil his intentions, by connecting information with amusement, by perpetuating the remembrance of de parted worth, and strengthening those sentiments of patriotism which form a valuable portion of the character of a virtuous people, they may perhaps be regarded as not altogether unworthy of the Author's pains, or of your Lordship's protection. — I have the honour to be, MY LORD, Your Lordship's most obedient, and most humble Servant, JAMES CRIME. D alt on, Oft. 5, 1802.

ADVERTISEMENT.

Part I

View of the Forth zvestward.— Objects there. — View eastward from the same Station. — Object and Incidents. — The Seat of the Earl of Moray.— -Burnt island. — Kinghorn. — Death of Alexander III. — Lamentation of his Queen. — North Berwick Law. — Tranent. — Field of Binkey. — Carberry-Hill. — Queen Mary parting with the Earl of Bothwell. — Arthurs Seat — Edinburgh. — Leith. — Islands in the Forth. — Hopeton- House — Roman Wall noticed. — Ruins of Rosythe Castle. — The Birth-place of Cromwell's Mother. — Dumfermline. — King Charles I. born there. ----- 12 a CONTENTS. X QUEENSFERRY TO KINROSS.

Part II

Hill of Beath. — Distant View of Largo-Bay. — The Isle of May, and Largo-Law. — Robinson Crusoe. — A Roman Encampment, — Agricola, from the Lomond Hills, surveying the Country and his Fleet hovering on the Coast. — Castle of Loch-Orr. — View of Loch-Leven. — The Island and Castle in which Mary Q of Scots was imprisoned — Her Escape. — The Earl of Northumberland confined soon after in the same Place. — Kinross House. — St. Serf's Isle. — A Storm. Page 20 KINROSS TO PERTH. Michael Bruce. — Rocking Stone. — Bursting of a Hill. — View of Strath-Earn. — Of the Junction of the Earn and Tay. — Abernethy. — Carse of Gowry, fye. - - - 28 PERTH TO DUNKELD. View of Tay and Perth from the South. — Church. — Bridge. — Site of the Old Monastry. — Murder of James I. — Scoon Palace. — Shades of three Lovers on the banks of the Almond. — Loncarty. — Birnam Wood, Syc. - 36 DUNKELD TO BLAIR IN ATHOL.

Scenery around. — Ruins of the Cathedral. — Address to the Shade of Gavin Douglas —The River Braan— Fall of Water.— Ossian s Hall.—Faskely. — Killicrankie. — Dundee's Stone. CONTENTS. XI BLAIR IN ATHOL TO TAYMOUTH. Rivers Garry and Tilt. — Bruar Water Falls. — Tummle. — Logie- Rait. — Great Men. — Evening_Scene, entering Strath Tay. — Weem. — Castle Menzies. — Hermitage above the Village of Weem — Hermit. — Tay Bridge. - Page 53 TAYMOUTH TO KIL-LINN. Loch Tay. — Its Mountains. — Drummond, Ben Lawrs, and others. ■—Scenery round the Castle. — The Village of Kenmore. — Fall of Water. — Hermitage, §c. — Commotion of the Waters in the Lake. ________ 5g KIL-LINN TO TYNE-DRUM. Loch Tay. — Mountains toward its Western extremity. — Tradition of Fingal's Grave. — Finlurig, Lochy, and Loch- Ar d — Mountain Torrent. — Cast le Doch-Ard. — Strath-Fillan. — Superstitious Custom there. - -64 TYNE-DRUM TO DALMALLY.

PART I.

Solitary Inn. — Bleak Mountains. — Spirit of the Storm. — Shelter necessary. — Dairy, or the King's Vale. — Defeat of Bruce. — Ridge of Breda.lbine. — Source of Tay, Forth, §c. — Mineral Stores of those Mountains. — Defence they afford. — A wide Field for the Sportsman. - 68 a CONTENTS. XII TYNE-DRUM TO DALMALLY.

PART II.

Station. — Summit of Bredalbine. — Refleclions. — Wliether a Her. mit could subsist in such a Desert. — The Severity of Winter at such an Altitude. — View of the Western Main. Page 75 DALMALLY TO INVERARY. Castle of Kill-Hourn. — Cruachan, a high Mountain. — Fingal with his Heroes following the Chace — From the Brow of the Mountain, viewing the Scenery around, and listening to the Harp of Ossian. — Different Subjects of Ossian's Song. — Address to Ossian. — Inhabited Island in the Lake. — Sunday Scene. — Address to Parents relative to the religious Education of their Children. — Hayfield. 83 INVERARY TO ARROQUHAR. Inverary — Its Scenery. — Fairy Scene. — Cairndoo. — Glen-Croe. — A wild Scene. — Wanderer. — Causes of his woe. 91 ARROQUHAR TO ROSNEATH. Loch-Long. — Scenery rugged and wild. — Natives strongly attached to it. — Emigration. — Arroquhar. — Ard-Garton.

Argyle's Bowling-Green. - - _ gg CONTENTS. XIII ROSNEATH TO LUSS. View from the Hill of Rosneath. — Natural Objects that afford Delight from their Variety, Beauty, and Grandeur. — Effect of them upon the human Mind. — Wallace's Leap. Page 102 LUSS TO DRYMEN.

PART I.

Address to Loch-Lomond. — The Lake — Preferred to most others — Description of it — Islands in it. — Ben-Lomond. — A Thunder-Starm . — A View from the Top of Ben-Lomond. — Mist in the Valley, seen from the Mountain, with the Sun shining upon it. — A Youth, viewing it, regrets his being alone. ___-__- - 106 LUSS TO DRYMEN.

PART II.

Winter Scene. — Sportsman. — Torrents from the Mountains. — Objects around the Lake. — The neighbouring Country unconquered in War. — Great Men born near the Lake. — Situation favourable to Genius. — Printfields on the Banks of the Leven. — Beauty of that River. — Ossian. — Invocation to the Spirits of departed Heroes. — Excursion on the Lake. — Its Islands, Woods, Rocks, and Mountains, Jit Subjects for the most eminent Landscape Painters. — Dutchess of *###*#**. - CONTENTS. XIV DRYMEN TO GLASGOW. Buchanan's Monument. — Strath-Blane. — The Roman Wall. — The Aqueduct Bridge over the Kelvin. — View of Glasgow. — Its flourishing State, Sj-c. - - - - Page 134 GLASGOW TO HAMILTON AND LANARK. Leaving Glasgow. — Visit Bothwell Castle. — Pass Bothwell Bridge. — Visit Hamilton and Mauldslie Castle. — Scenery along the Clyde. — Water-Fail on the Clyde at Stone Byres. — Source of the Clyde, Annan, and Tweed, in the same Ridge of Mountains, above Moffat. - - 138 LANARK.

River Mouse. — Roman Camp. — Ruins of Lanark Church. — Wallace married there. — His Wifgj^Fate, a jit Subject for Tragedy. — Tinto. — Fall at Bonnington, those of the Nile and Niagara mentioned. — A Youth carried over a Fall on the Rhine. — A Lady narrowly escapes from the Clyde. — Character of Clyde — of Douglas. - 144 LANARK TO HAMILTON AND KIRK OF SHOTS. Water-Fall. — Relict of Theodore, late King of Corsica. — Lanark Cotton Works. — Return down the Clyde by Bothwell Castle. —Great Men mentioned. — View from the rising Ground that ascends to Kirk of Shots. - - - - _ CONTENTS. XV KIRK OF SHOTS. Past Events connected with the View from this Station. — Wallace betrayed near Glasgow, and carried South. — Mary Queen of Scots mustering her Troops at Hamilton before the Battle at Langside. — Loyal Montrose. — Conclusion.

Page 158 LOCH-KETTRIN. 165 Parti. 175 Part II.— Modern State of the Lake. - - - 212 NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. - - - 229 LIST b LIST OF THE PRINTS. EDINBURGH. (Plate 1. — See the Frontispiece.) 1 HE Capital of Scotland may be said to stand on three hills, running nearly in a parallel direction from east to west. The middle ridge, narrow on the top and steep on both sides, rising gradually from the plain for more than a mile in length, to where it terminates abruptly at the Castle, is covered by the buildings of the Old Town. The North or New Town occupies an elevated plain from which the ground descends on all sides with a gentle declivity. The station of the south part of the city is also on a rising ground, from which the slope is no where very abrupt. The Old Town is remarkable for the peculiarity of its situation.

From the Castle, which stands on the summit of the hill at its western ex tremity, a fine street, a mile long, and for the most part ninety feet broad, descends to the Palace of Holyrood House, and occupies almost the whole flat part of the ridge. — This is very properly termed the High street. On each side of this steep hill, the buildings, many of which are of vast height, are disposed in rows, forming narrow lanes, here called closes, descending towards the north and south. The hill on which the Old Town is seated had once a lake on each side. — The street called the Cowgate occupies the bottom of the southern valley, drained of its waters. The northern one, which is the deepest, is now also drained, but is still known by the name of the North Loch. The Castle being pitched on a vast rock, high, rugged, and preci pitous, with a drawbridge on the only accessible side, might well be con sidered in antient times as almost impregnable ; and such is its antiquity, that historians have been unable to trace the æra of its origin.

The communication between the north and south parts of the city is facilitated by two noble bridges. The North Bridge, founded by Provost Drummond in 1763, consisting of three great arches and two lesser ones, is a fine specimen of modern architecture. The South Bridge, being entirely concealed by buildings, except one arch, forms an elegant street. It was begun by Provost Hunter Blair in 1785. This view was taken from the South East, on the slope of the hill be yond St. Anthony's Chapel. It includes the Abbey and Palace of Holy rood on the east ; some of the buildings on the south side of the Canon gate, those of St. John-street, the steeple of the English Chapel in the Cowgate, and part of the range that forms the High-street, with the steeples of the Tron and St. Giles's Churches, terminated, as above men tioned, by the Castle on the west.

To the right is the Calton-hill, with the Observatory, Signal Post, and Bridewell, — the North Bridge, with that part of the New Town called Princes-street, the spires of St. Andrew's Church, and Orphan Hospital. — On the left stands the Infirmary, with part of the New College, not yet completed. — Nearly in a line with the North Bridge, are the buildings on the south, which cross the principal street of the Old Town at right angles. — Beyond these are seen the steeples and spires of Heriot's Hospital, and that of Magdalene Chapel, with the hill of Corstorphine in the distance *. Immediately contiguous to the fore-ground, is part of the base of the hill called Salisbury Craigs, remarkable for a great precipice of solid rock, about a mile in length, and in some parts a hundred feet high, that passes pretty regularly along its brow. — Above this, but not included in the view, the pointed top of Arthur's Seat rises to a considerable height, and affords an extensive prospect of the surrounding country. — The ba- * For a more particular account of the Public Buildings in the city, see Arnot's History of Edinburgh. / saltic columns on the south west side of this hill, as well as the beautifully variegated stones of the jasper kind found in it, claim the particular attention of the naturalist.

Here also the botanist finds an ample harvest ; — more than four hundred species of plants, some of them curious and rare, have been observed on these hills, and in the lakes and fields in their vicinity. It may not be improper here to observe, that the piazzas in Holyrood House are 135 feet above the level of the sea, which is at the distance of only an English mile and a quarter to the eastward ; and that the two principal streets of the Old Town run from the Palace towards the Castle, nearly in a straight line, measuring about a mile in length, as already observed, with a rise of one foot in sixteen on an average. The following are the heights, above the level of the sea, of some of the most remarkable places in Edinburgh and its vicinity : — Feet.

Castle of Edinburgh's half-moon battery - - 5 1 o Calton Hill - - 3 50 Salisbury Craigs - 550 Arthur's Seat .--- 796 Pentland Hills, highest point of, 1 700 The increase of wealth arising from extended commerce, and the flourishing state of manufactures, together with the advantages resulting from the University, the Grammar School (commonly called the High School, from its being of royal foundation) and the various Seminaries of Art and Science in it, have greatly increased the population of Edinburgh, now be come the residence of many families of distinction, and the resort of people of fashion and fortune ; — so much so, that, great as the rage has been, and still is, for building, there are not lodgings to be found sufficient for the an nually increasing number of its inhabitants For the better accommodation of the public, the Magistrates of Edinburgh have therefore, with laudable spirit, purchased extensive grounds for the scite of a New Town, north of the former, commanding a view of the whole reach of the Frith of Forth, from North Berwick on the south-east, to Queen's Ferry on the north-west, b XX screened by the Grampian Hills which are overtopped by the lofty mountains on the banks of Loch Lomond and Loch Kettrin.

The buildings are already begun, agreeably to an elegant plan, which, when completed, cannot fail to give to the whole city a degree of magnificence perhaps unequalled in Europe. St. BERNARD'S WELL (Plate II. — Page i.) Is situated about a mile north west of Edinburgh, near Stockbridge, on the southern bank of the river Leith, which descends from the Pent land Hills, and, after a short run of about fifteen miles, empties itself into the sea at the town of Leith. This View was taken from the high ground on the road to Queen's Ferry, above the Granaries at the Water of Leith, looking down the river towards the sea. On the right of the circular building, which gives title to the View, are the pleasure-grounds at Drumsheugh, a seat of the Earl of Mo ray. — On the left are the house and planting belonging to Mr. Raeburn the painter. — Beyond the Well, and in the direction of the river, are the new buildings, and china manufactory at Dean Bank, with part of the extensive distillery at Canon Mills. — In the same direction, but more remote, is the villa of Warriston. — That of Inverleith occupies a station more at hand towards the left of the Landscape. — Further off towards the coast are the lately-erected buildings above New Haven, those of Williamfield and Bathfield, with Inch-Keith, Kinghorn on the opposite shore and the Frith of Forth, where a thousand sail of shipping may find safe and commodious anchorage in the roadstead west of the Island.

The prospect is bounded on the north by the Hills in Fife and Perth shire, and terminated on the east by the sea. LOCH LEVEN CASTLE, Moon-light. (Plate III. — Page 22.) Loch Leven, a beautiful Lake in the County of Kinross, is about twelve miles in circumference, somewhat of a circular form, but irregu larly indented. It contains several small islands, in one of which, the subject of the Print, stands a ruinous Castle, formerly the property of the Douglases of Loch Leven, in which the unfortunate Mary Queen of Scots was confined for nearly eleven months. DUNKELD, (Plate IV. — Page 47 A) In Perthshire, is situated on the northern bank of the Tay, which is here broad and deep. It is surrounded with hills and vast rocks richly wooded. Its romantic situation, and the advantage of drinking goats' whey, invite much genteel company to this place in the summer months.

This View was taken from the high ground near the East Ferry, looking up the river, westward. At the western extremity of the Town stand the ruins of the Cathedral, shrouded with wood ; to the right is the seat of the Duke of Athol, which has been the object of much attention and expence. His Grace's Farm occupies a station more towards the right. The river Braan, descending from the hills east of Loch Tay, falls into the Tay a little above Dunkeld. The Duke of Athol intends building a bridge here across the Tay • for which purpose an act of parliament has lately been obtained. OSSIAN'S HALL, (Plate V. — Page 49.) Is about a mile above Dunkeld, to the west. It is an oblong building, with a bow-window at one end, seated on a high rock opposite a fall of the river Braan, commanding a complete prospect of the cataract and all its accompaniments.

This View was taken, looking down the river towards the bridge over the chasm, and obliquely across the fall, of which a small part is repre sented. The Print exhibits the west aspect of the building. THE PASS OF KILLICRANKIE, (Plate VI.— Page 51.) In Perthshire, opens between Faskely and Blair of Athol, near the confluence of the rivers Tummel and Garry. It may be justly termed the Caledonian Thermopylæ : and is noted for the fall of the brave Viscount Dundee. It is also remarkable for the sublimity of its scenery. Immense mountains rise on either side ; that of Bengloe, in the distance towards the right, exceeds three thousand seven hundred feet. — Magnificent prospects open at different turns of the road, which in some parts is carried a vast height above the bed of the river. This View was taken from the bank, below the Bridge over the Garry.

BLAIR OF ATHOL. (Plate VII.— Page 53.) On leaving the Pass of Killicrankie, which continues about a mile, the Blair of Athol opens to view. Here the Duke of Athol has a seat called Blair Castle ; the apartments of which are splendid, and fitted up in great style. It is seated on an eminence rising from a great plain, sur rounded with hills, woods, and deep glens. It has extensive pastures, and vast ranges of forest. The cascades in the vicinity of Blair are greatly admired. FALL OF THE BRUAR. (Pi_ate Vlll.—Page S5-) The Falls on the river Bruar are about two miles beyond Blair. The Print exhibits the lower Fall, with a natural arch formed in the rock by the force of the water. The Duke of Athol has lately built a bridge over this romantic river, and is clothing the hills with plantations. The mountains and wastes of this district abound with various kinds of heath-fowl : here too are seen herds of wild stags and roe-bucks.

THE VILLAGE OF WEEM, (Plate IX. — Page 57.) Is situated in the fertile vale of Strath Tay near Castle Menzies. The Print offers a Highland Village, with harvest home. On the left is the Inn ; beyond it, on higher ground, screened by the hill, stands the Church, with trees in front ; the Manse occupies a station nearer the middle of the View. The hill is composed of vast masses of rock and broken grounds inter spersed with trees, brush-wood, and small cascades. Towards the top there is a remarkable Hermitage, neither painted nor trimly decorated, but rugged and romantically formed by the hand of nature. LIST OF THE PRINTS. TAYMOUTH. (Plate X. — Page 59.) Loch Tay is situated in that division of Perthshire called Braidalbine : it is about fifteen miles long, and in some places about two miles broad : it extends in a direction somewhat serpentine almost due east and west.

Taymouth is at the eastern extremity of the lake. The little town of Kenmore, built by Lord Braidalbine, has the Lake on one side, and his lordship's seat, at a considerable distance, on the other. This View was taken from an eminence in the pleasure-grounds which are very extensive and beautifully laid out. — On the left of the Print stands the Church of Kenmore, and some of the buildings of the town. The bridge over the river Tay at its outlet from the lake extends to the right ; beyond it is seen a small wooded island, with the ruins of a Priory founded by Alexander the First of Scotland. — The hill called Drummond, and the mountain of Ben Lawrs, the latter of which rises to the height of 3588 feet above the level of the lake, screen it on the north. The water-falls near Taymouth may be seen by ascending the hill on the south side of the Lake.

Exclusive of the natural beauties around Lord Braidalbine's seat at Taymouth, his lordship has here a valuable collection of pictures, by the most celebrated masters. FALL OF AHARAN. (Plate XL— Page 61.) On the hill situated at the foot of Loch Tay, south of the Lake, and a short way from Kenmore, are the Falls of Aharan. Having ascended the hill to a considerable height, the approach to this remarkable spot is through a subterranean passage leading to a Her mitage which Lord Braidalbine, the proprietor, has fitted up in perfect unison with the scenery around it. The Upper Fall, which passes under a bridge of one arch, is received by a great circular cavity formed under the projecting rocks by the force of the water. The Print shews the appearance of the Lower Fall, when there is little water in the river ; — but when full, it makes one entire shoot over the rock, which is of an immense height.

The View, from the bottom of the Fall, will amply compensate for the trouble necessary to obtain it. The descent is somewhat difficult ; but, with proper caution, by no means dangerous, unless the river be very high. KILL-LINN (Plate XII.— Page 64.) Is situated at the head of Loch Tay, which here receives the rivers Doch-Ard, and Lochy. Although there are several fine views from ad vantageous stations along the. south side of the Lake, the two extremities are unquestionably the most beautiful parts of it. This View was taken looking up the river Lochy. To the left of the Manse is the spot of ground sacred to the memory of the great Fingal *, screened on the right by the Maiden rock. INVERARY CASTLE, (Plate XIII.— Page 91.) The seat of the Duke of Argyle, is delightfully situated on a gently rising ground at the mouth of the river Ary ; on the north west side of Loch Fyne, a salt lake in Argyle-shire, which communicates with the sea, at the distance of about twenty miles from the town of Inverary. * Who, it is said, was buried here.

C LIST OF THE PRINTS. t The Castle is built of a bluish-coloured stone*, easily cut with the chisel, but sufficiently durable. It is a modern building, constructed in the old castle form, having the ground-plot square, and each corner adorned with a round-tower. In the middle rises a square one, considerably higher than the rest, which gives it a picturesque appearance. The area which surrounds it is spacious, two or three miles in circumference, bounded behind the Castle by a semicircular screen of mountains. It thus stands in a kind of mountain recess, open in front, where it commands an extensive view over Loch Fyne, which here spreads into a noble bay, forming an irregular circle of about twelve miles in circumference, beautifully indented with a variety of bold penin sulas, covered with wood.

To the right of the Castle, at a considerable distance, on the fame side of the Lake, stands the town of Inverary. The hill of Duniquech is situated on the left : between it and the Castle runs the Ary, over which are two elegant bridges : over that in the pleasure-ground, a fine walk is conducted along the banks of the river ; and an off-set leads in a spiral line up the mountain to the watch-tower on its summit, commanding one of the grandest views in this country. The valley of Glen-Sheerah extends in a north-east direction from Duni quech : over the little river, which runs through this vale, are two beautiful bridges ; one in what is called the Deer Park, and the other at the mouth of the river. This View, which was taken from the south-east, represents the east front of the Castle, the Bridge over the mouth of the Ary, and the hill of Duniquech in the distance.

The situation of this princely mansion, and the simplicity and grandeur of its improvements and decorations, render it perhaps more worth visiting than any other place in North Britain. * A species of the lapis ollaris, called by Dr. Walker siphnius. LOCH LOMOND (Plate XIV.— Page 106.) Descends from the northern point of Dunbarton-shire. This beautiful and extensive Lake, lying north and south, is about thirty-six miles in length ; very narrow at its northern extremity, but spreads to between eight and ten miles in breadth towards the south end. This Lake has about thirty islands scattered over it, of these only four teen can be said to be of any value. Several of them have arable and pasture lands, and are inhabited ; most of them are covered with wood. Inch-Marin, the largest, is a beautiful island, about two miles long, and near one mile broad ; with the ruins of a 'Castle, formerly the residence of the ancient family of Lennox.

It is finely wooded, and is used as a deer park by the proprietor, the Duke of Montrose ; whose pleasure-grounds and plantations around Buchanan House, extend along the east side of the Lake. The islands called Devannoc (or rather Stravannoch") and Lonach, are the property of Sir James Colquhoun of Luss : the former, rising at one end into a lofty hill, affords a fine prospect of all the southern division of the Lake ; the latter abounds with yew-trees, and is turned into a deer park. Besides the islands in Loch Lomond, there are many peninsulas which run into it, and add greatly to the variety of the scenery : of these the most remarkable is that of Ross-Doe, on which stands the beautiful seat of the family of Luss. The Lake is skirted with wood around its whole circuit ; the oak seems to grow on its banks smoother and straighter than almost any where else, and trees of every kind thrive amazingly in its vicinity.

There are two ash-trees at Bonhill, one of which measures twenty-five, the other thirty-three feet in circumference at the root ; three feet above the surface, the former measures nineteen and a half, and where the trunk is smallest eighteen feet ; from the extremity of the branches on the one side to that of those on the other, the distance measures ninety-four feet. c Near the Castle stands Bothwell House, the elegant seat of Lord Douglas. The improvements here are in a great stile ; grandeur and simplicity pervade the whole. The picturesque ruin of the Castle, gives to the scenery, in every point of view, a high degree of grandeur and magnificence. This venerable relic of antiquity is most carefully preserved by its noble owner. FALL OF THE CLYDE AT STONE-BYRES. (Plate XVIL— Page 142.) The Clyde, in Lanark-shire, descending from the southern part of the county, divides it into two almost equal parts.

Near the sources of this river are many lofty mountains, one of which, called the Lowthers, rises more than three thousand feet above the level of the sea. Lanark, the county town, erected into a royal borough by Alexander I. stands on high ground on the north-east side of the Clyde, and com mands a fine prospect over the river. r Vestiges of a Roman road, which still retains the name of Watling street, may be traced down the east and north bank of the Clyde. Decending along its stream, population and agriculture seem to im prove, on both sides, as the river increases in magnitude. The three great Falls of the Clyde, taking them in the course of the river, are Bonnington Lin # ; Corra Lin (or rather Core-House Lin), so called, either from the old Castle, or the house of that name standing on the high bank that overhangs the Fall, and Stone-Byres, the subject of this View.

The Fall of Stone-Byres is situated about two miles and a half below the Corra Lin. It obtained that name from the neighbouring estate of Stone-Byres, belonging to Daniel Vere, Esq. : but the grounds adjacent to the Fall, on both sides of the river, have lately been feued or purchased by the respectable Mr. Dale. * The word Lin is derived from the Gaelic word JUum, i. e. leap or fall. This Cataract is about eighty feet in height, and, like the Corra Lin, has three distinct but almost precipitate falls. It is surrounded with wild rugged rocks, fringed and screened with wood ; but nothing can exceed the striking and stupendous appearance of the Fall itself, when viewed from any of the projecting rocks below on either side of it. On the right of the Print stands the Mill of Stone-Byres : The mountain called Tintoc, which, from its great height, and the clouds of mist frequently resting upon it, serves as a weather-glass to the country people in its neighbourhood, occupies the distance.