built in 1842, on ground which an- | boundaries, was 9361; within its parliaciently belonged to a Dominican friary. mentary boundaries, 12,837. The North Free Church, nearly opposite the alighting place at the Railway Station, is a handsome structure, built since 1843. The First United Presbyterian Church has in front of it a beautiful monument in honour of Ebenezer Erskine; and the Second is a neat new building in the Gothic style. The Episcopalian Chapel is an elegant Tudor edifice. The New Cemetery is finely embellished, and contains monuments to the memory of John Knox, Andrew Melville, Alexander Henderson, and Ebenezer Erskine. Stirling was a Roman station, and may be supposed to have had a Roman fort. It probably was a military key post—a commanding centre between the southern and northern divisions of Scotland-during most of the long period of conflict between the Scots and the Picts. It rose into national importance in the time of Malcolm Canmore; and it made a great figure, involving sieges, sackings, and the two famous battles of Stirling and Bannockburn, during the wars of the Succession. The sovereigns of the StuStirling has a large market trade, con- art dynasty, down to James VI., treated ducts commerce to the amount of about it as one of their capitals, making it the 2500 tons a-year, and carries on exten- scene both of much of their domestic sive manufactures in woollen fabrics, and life and of many of their public acts. considerable ones in other articles. It The contending parties throughout the contains seven banking offices, a great stormiest season of the Reformation, variety of miscellaneous institutions, and also, shook and swept it with their six principal inns-the Eagle, the Gol- struggles. The troubles in the time of den Lion, the Royal, the Star, the Rail- Cromwell likewise came across it; and way, and the Scottish Central. It forms the rebellions both of 1715 and of 1745 a grand centre for touring excursions, disturbed its peace. Its history altoand commands ample facilities of com-gether, as a Scottish town, throughout munication. It is a seat of sheriff the period of authentic record, is second, courts, and of circuit justiciary courts; in the number and variety of important is governed by a provost, four bailies, events, only to that of Perth and Edinand sixteen councillors; and unites with burgh. The number and diversity of its Dunfermline and three other burghs in distinguished men also have been great. sending a member to Parliament. The It for some time gave the titles of Viscount population in 1851, within its municipal and Earl to the family of Alexander. 424. BROXBURN rivulet runs eight | Kirkliston, and contains good store of miles east-north-eastward to Almond well-sized trout. Broxburn village, on Water, three-fourths of a mile above the rivulet, adjacent to the Union Canal, three-fourths of a mile north of Broxburn | It conducts a considerable country trade; Station, has a post office under Winch- is a centre for extensive mineral trafburgh, and about 750 inhabitants. Kirkhill, a former seat of the Earl of Buchan, is in the western vicinity of the village; and Almonddale, a present seat of the same Earl, is on Almond Water, two miles to the south. 425. UPHALL village, a mile northeast of Houston Station, has a post office under Winchburgh, a parish church, and about 220 inhabitants. The tract around it is rich in minerals. Middleton Hall, a little south-east of the village, is the seat of Captain Wm. Hankey; and Houston House, in the vicinity of the station, is the seat of Major Shairp, the desceudant of William E'Scharp, who came from Normandy with David II. fic; and has a post office, three banking offices, and a subscription library. A handsome free academy, with four teachers, stands on a rising ground to the south-east; and Balbardie House, Alex. Marjoribanks, Esq., and Boghead House, Thomas D. Weir, Esq., are in the vicinity. Walter, the son-in-law of Robert Bruce, received Bathgate as his wife's dowry, and died here in 1328. Some incidents occurred at Bathgate and its neighbourhood in the course of the march of the Covenanters to the field of Rullion Green. The population of the town in 1851 was 3341, and it is now upwards of 5000. Torphichen, 2 miles north by west of Bathgate, is a church village with about 400 inhabitants. The Knights of St. John of Jerusalem had their chief Scottish seat here, and some remains of their church are still standing. Wallhouse, Andrew Gillon, Esq., and Lochcote, 426. LIVINGSTONE village, on Almond Water, has a parish church and about 120 inhabitants. A strong baronial fortalice, called the Peel of Livingstone, stood adjacent to it; and an ancient hunting seat of the Kings of Scotland stood at Newyearfield, half a mile to the north-William Forbes, Esq., are in the neigheast. The "bonny lass of Livingstone,' celebrated in Scottish song, is said to have kept an hostelry a mile to the west. 427. BATHGATE stands amid pleasant environs, at the junction of a hilly tract with plain; and is partly an old town, with narrow, crooked streets, on an acclivity,-partly a new town, with regular, well-built streets, on low ground. bourhood. Blackburn village, with about 500 inhabitants, stands 2 miles south by east of Bathgate; and Whitburn village, with about 1000 inhabitants and a parish church, stands 3 miles southwest. Blackburn House, the seat of Mrs. Scales, is a mile east of Blackburn; and Polkemmet, the seat of Sir William Baillie, Bart., is 1 mile west of Whitburn. XXIX. FROM EDINBURGH TO`GLASGOW. Kilsyth Castle, long the seat of the family of Livingstone, and garrisoned in the Royalist cause against Cromwell, 428. CASTLECARY, three-fourths of a | hollow now containing the reservoir of mile south-east of Castlecary Station, the Forth and Clyde Canal. The ruin of was a principal fort on Antoninus' Wall, connected with an iter from the south; but only the ruins of a tower of it remain. Cumbernauld, 1 mile south-stands in the northern neighbourhood of west of the station, is a town with about 2500 inhabitants; and has a post office under Glasgow, a good inn, and a subscription library. Cumbernauld House, adjacent to it, is the seat of John Fleming, Esq. The surrounding tract continued, till a comparatively recent period, to be covered by a remnant of the ancient Caledonian Forest, and was inhabited, nearly to the last, by a flock of the old, wild, fierce Caledonian ox. the town. Colzium House, the seat of Sir A. Edmonstone, Bart., and the ruins of Colzium Castle, stand about a mile to the north-east. Two Caledonian forts occur in the vicinity, at Balcastle and at Cunney Park-the former one of the best antiquities of its class in Scotland; and vestiges of two Roman forts confront them, at Westerwood and Barhill. 430. KIRKINTILLOCH stands on the Forth and Clyde Canal, and on Luggie Water, adjacent to the Kelvin; and has a station on the Campsie Railway, 1 mile north-east of the Campsie Junction Station. It sprang from a strong fort on Antoninus' Wall, and took from it the name of Caerpentulach, corrupted 429. KILSYTH stands on a small rising ground, 13 mile north of Croy Station. It was founded in 1665, in lieu of an older place on a different site. Its arrangement is irregular and its appear ance poor. It has a post office under Glasgow, two banking offices, a hand-into Kirkintilloch, and signifying "the some modern parish church, and four other places of worship. Its population in 1851 was 3949. It gave the title of Viscount, from 1661 to 1716, to the family of Livingstone. Two notable revivals of religion took place at it, in 1742 and 1839. A battle, disastrous to the Covenanters, was fought in 1645, about 1 mile to the east, between General Baillie and the Marquis of Montrose, and is commemorated by some local names. The battle-field lay around the fort at the end of the ridge." Remains of the fort still exist at the west end of the town, in the form of a flat oblong mound, 90 yards by 80, now called the Peel. Numerous Roman relics have been found on the spot; and one of the most interesting of them, a legendary stone, is preserved in the Hunterian Museum at Glasgow. The town became a burgh of barony in the time of William the Lion, and was a seat of strength and a centre of administration 144 KELVIN WATER-SPRINGBURN. to successively the Comyns, the Lords | pies a commanding site, and is a handFleming, and the Earls of Wigton. Its some, spacious, Gothic edifice, with a present appearance is confused, dingy, old-fashioned, and poor. It has a post office under Glasgow, two banking offices, and seven places of worship. Its population in 1851 was 6342. Duntiblae, in its neighbourhood, was the residence and death-place of Walter Watson, the author of "Jockie's far awa," "We've aye been provided for, and sae will we yet," and several other popular lyrics. 431. KELVIN WATER rises 3 miles east of Kilsyth, and runs 14 miles westsouth-westward to the Clyde in the western vicinity of Glasgow. Most of its course goes sluggishly and nakedly along the strath of the Forth and Clyde Canal; but the lower part, to the extent of about 5 miles, lies along a romantic wooded dell. Its chief affluents are the Glazert and the Allander on the right, and the Luggie on the left. Its waters contain trout, pike, perch, and roach, and are occasionally frequented by salmon. 432. CAMPSIE is a parish impinging on Kelvin Water, and lying from 5 to 14 miles north-north-east of Glasgow. Its central and southern districts are valley and strath, bisected by Glazert Water, rich in minerals, and swarming with industry; its western district is a spur of the Lennox Hills, called the South Brae, about 700 feet high, adorned with culture; and its northern district is a portion of the Lennox Hills, called the Campsie Fells, rising to a height of about 1500 feet, and picturesquely marked with glens, ravines, and crags. The low tracts contain six villages, chiefly seats of manufacture, and a number of good or handsome separate residences. Lennoxtown, the largest of the villages, stands on Glazert Water, at the terminus of the Campsie Railway, 113 miles north-northeast of Glasgow; and has a post office under Glasgow, an office of the Royal Bank, a mechanics' institution, three places of worship, and about 3200 inha bitants. The parish church at it occu tower, erected in 1828. Lennox Castle, the seat of Viscountess Strangford, on a part of the South Brae, nearly 500 feet above the level of the Strath, is a magnificent modern edifice in the grand old Norman style. The chief glens among the Fells are romantically picturesque; present, at some points, striking miniature resemblances to the Trosachs; and form a favourite resort of all classes of holiday ramblers from Glasgow. The Kirkton glen is the one most frequented; but the Fin glen has more water, a better cascade, and scarcely inferior flanks. 433. ROBROYSTON, 4 miles northeast of Glasgow, is an estate with a good modern mansion, and contained, till 1826, the cottage in which Sir William Wallace was betrayed. A lake on it, which figures in the history of the patriot's betrayal, is now nearly all drained; and its bed, being partially engirt with pine wood, presents a gloomy appearance. 434. BISHOPBRIGGS has a post office under Glasgow, and about 320 inhabitants. Cadder, 13 mile north of it, adjoins the site of a fort on Antoninus' Wall, and comprises a scattered village among trees, a Gothic church with a neat tower, erected in 1830, and a mansion partly ancient and partly modern, the seat of the old family of Stirling, famous for the ministrations of John Knox. Auchenairn, with about 600 inhabitants, is half a mile south of Bishopbriggs; and Possil, the seat of Sir Archibald Alison, Bart., is 1 mile southwest. 435. SPRINGBURN, in the eastern vicinity of Cowlairs Depôt, 11⁄2 mile north-east of Glasgow, contains many substantial houses, a post office under Glasgow, three places of worship, and about 2000 inhabitants. Balgray Quarry, in its neighbourhood, disclosed, about the year 1832, upwards of twenty exogenous fossil trees, all standing in a group, in their natural position. Brown, Esq.; and two beautiful artificial mounds, about 60 feet high, which have been the subject of some discussion among antiquaries. The north-eastern part contains Torwood, noticed in 418; and Carbrook, the seat of J. C. Bolton, Esq. 436. DENNY is a manufacturing town | Dunipace House, the seat of John H. on Carron Water, 3 miles from the junction point with the main railway, and 7 miles by road south of Stirling. It comprises a small old town, and some suburbs and suburban villas; presents a busy and flourishing appearance; and contains a key post office, a banking office, several good inns, and three places of worship. Its population in 1851 was 2446. The neat modern mansions of Denovan and Quarter; the ancient castle of Herbertshire, formerly the property of the St. Clairs of Orkney, now the property of Mr. Forbes of Callendar; and a recently discovered Roman camp, which yielded some well preserved Roman uten-ers" under a superior; an arrangement sils, are in the neighbourhood. 437. DUNIPACE is a parish of about 10 square miles, along the left side of Carron Water. The south-eastern part of it, 1 mile east of Denny, contains the parish church, a Gothic edifice of 1834; 438. DENNYLOANHEAD is the east end of a chain of villages, about 2 miles long, parallel to the Forth and Clyde Canal, terminating at Haggs, containing two churches and about 1000 inhabitants. The lands around and for several miles to the west, are remarkable for division into small properties, held by "portion said to have arisen, at the time of the national union, by the Earl of Wigton's conveyance of large estates in perpetuity to his tenants at the rents which they then paid. |