442 miles. Road to Strathblane, left....... Drymen Village and Buchanan House, 2 and 3 miles to the right..... 445 Drymen Station, 23 miles. The Whangie, left; view over Loch Lomond, right; Endrick Water, crossed, 446 Endrick Bank, left; Kilmaronock Station, 26 miles...... 447 Duncruin, right; Vale tains traces of five or six Caledonian and Roman camps, and was much infested, in the marauding times, by irruptions of the Highland caterans. 441. BUCKLYVIE village, with a post office under Stirling, three places of worship, and about 450 inhabitants, stands a mile to the left of Bucklyvie Station. Garden House, James Stirling, Esq.; 439. GARGUNNOCK village stands on | The surrounding tract of country conthe side of a rising ground, a mile to the left of the station, about a mile from the Forth. It has a post office under Stir ling, and a parish church. The Keir Hill, in its vicinity, shows traces of ancient fortification. The Peel of Gargunnock, the scene of an exploit of Sir William Wallace, stood adjacent to the Forth, but has disappeared. The mansions of Gargunnock, Captain Stirling; Meikle- and Cardross House, David Erskine, wood, Captain Graham; Leckie, R. G. Esq., stand nearer the Forth. Arnprior Moir, Esq.; and Boquhan, H. F. Camp- village, famous for conflicts with the bell, Esq., are in the neighbourhood. Macgregor caterans; Arngibbon House, Boquhan Glen, 24 miles west of the vil- the seat of John Foster, Esq.; and Arnlage, is so grandly romantic, so beautifully gibbon Glen, notable for its romantic wild, as to have been sometimes com- scenery, are two or three miles to the pared to the Trosachs; and it anciently east. Flanders Moss, traversed by the contained a baronial fortalice, which railway in the neighbourhood of Buckwitnessed some sharp collisions of the lyvie, is a low, flat, alluvial tract of clans. The adjacent portions of the about 10,000 acres, lying along the Forth Lennox Hills rise to altitudes of about upward from the vicinity of Stirling, 1400 feet above the level of the sea, and swamped into bog by the destruction of command magnificent views. the Caledonian Forest in the time of the Romans, and now extensively reclaimed. An omnibus runs in summer from Bucklyvie Station to Aberfoyle. 440. KIPPEN village stands a little to the left of the station. It has a post office under Stirling, two churches, and two small inns, the Cross Keys and the Crown. Its population is about 420. Arngomery House, the seat of W. L. Ewing, Esq., is in the neighbourhood. 442. BALFRON is a neat, modern, small manufacturing town on the right bank of Endrick Water, 1 mile east of Balfron Station. It has a post office within half a mile of each other, 2 miles to the south, are romantic localities, featured with cliff, waterfall, and wood. under Glasgow, an office of the British | shaped cavity, with a picturesque cataLinen Company's Bank, a public library, ract. Dualt Glen and Carnock Ravine, and about 1650 inhabitants. A daily coach runs from it to Glasgow. It was the birth-place of the fifth Earl of Glencairn, the associate of Knox; and it lays claim to Napier, the inventor of logarithms. Fintry village, on the left bank of Endrick Water, 6 miles to the east, is a similar place, with about 700 inhabitants, environed by a romantic group of the Lennox Hills, embosoming some fine close views, a basaltic colonnade, a beautiful waterfall, and vestiges of an old baronial fortalice, the seat of the Grahams of Fintry. 444. STRATHBLANE village stands in the middle of a valley, 5 miles southeast of Killearn, on the road thence to Glasgow. It has a post office under Glasgow, and a parish church; and it communicates daily with Glasgow by public coach. The valley around it is a disseverment of the Lennox Hills, extending north-westward with an aggregate descent of 240 feet, watered throughout by the rivulet Blane, and flanked 443. KILLEARN village stands 1 picturesquely by the bold high breaks of mile east of Gartness Station, and 2 the Lennox Hills. The view of it, when miles south-south-west of Balfron. It entered at the head, is richly beautiful contains a post office under Glasgow, and romantic. A basaltic colonnade, two churches, a conspicuous monument about 240 yards long, with columns to George Buchanan, and about 400 in- nearly vertical and about 30 feet high, habitants; and communicates daily with faces one part of its north-east flank. Glasgow by public coach. The Buchanan Blane Water makes a leaping descent Monument is an obelisk, 103 feet high, among the hills before reaching the valand was erected in 1788. Killearn ley; achieves a final fall of 70 feet, called House, the seat of Peter Blackburn, the Spout of Ballagan, when breaking Esq., in the southern vicinity the away from them; and then glides 6 village, is an elegant edifice of 1816. miles north-westward to the Endrick. Carbeth House, the seat of John Bu- Mugdock Castle, 1 mile south-southchanan, Esq., in the northern vicinity, west of the village, is the ruin of the is a showy, castellated structure of 1840. ancient principal residence of the Earls Boquhan Place, Thomas B. Buchanan, of Montrose. A lake of 25 acres adjacent Esq.; and Ballikinrain, Captain Dunmore to it was formerly drawn round it in a Napier, are also in the neighbourhood. | deep, broad fossé. The great reservoir of A small extinct farm-house, on the estate the Glasgow Water Works is to the south; of Moss, 12 mile to the south, was the and an extensive tunnel, which brings birth-place of George Buchanan. A the water, is in the neighbourhood. strong ancient house, on the estate of Duntreath Castle, adjacent to the Blane, Balglass, 3 miles to the north-east, is 2 miles below the village, is an ancient said to have been an asylum of Sir Wil- strong mansion of the Earls of Lennox, liam Wallace. Blairessan Spout-head, afterwards and now the property of the a little north of the village, is believed baronet family of Edmonstone. Craigto have been the scene of a sharp battle end Castle, James Buchanan, Esq., and between the Caledonians and the Ro- Carbeth-Guthrie, William Smith, Esq., mans. Gartness House, in the neigh- are modern mansions in the western bourhood of Gartness Station, was a neighbourhood of Mugdock. See 948. favourite residence of Napier, the in- 445. DRYMEN village, 2 miles to the ventor of logarithms. The Pot of Gart-west of Drymen Station, has a post office ness, on Endrick Water, is a caldron-under Dumbarton, two places of worship, 148 ENDRICK WATER-BALLOCH. ous view of Strathendrick, the Vale of Leven, and the screens of Loch Lomond. Mount Misery, a hill-ridge between Duncruin and Loch Lomond, rising to the heights of from 800 to 900 feet, commands still better views. and about 380 inhabitants. Buchanan | 450 feet high, is a picturesque object, House, the seat of the Duke of Montrose, with abrupt wooded sides, and a pinstands about a mile beyond it, amid ex-nacled summit, and commands a gorgetensive pleasure - grounds and woods. The old house was destroyed by accidental fire in 1850; and a new one has just been built. The estate belonged for centuries to the ancient family of Buchanan, and was purchased in 1682 by the family of Montrose. The Whangie, seen on the top of the hill to the left, after leaving Drymen Station, is a wild mass of disrupted rock, long stored by the popular imagination with superstitious terrors. 448. LEVEN WATER issues from Loch Lomond 1 mile north of Balloch, and runs 6 miles south-south-eastward to the Clyde at Dumbarton Castle. It is still as "transparent" as when Smollett wrote his inimitable "Ode to Leven Water." Its banks no longer possess their old Arcadian character, but are thickly studded with print-fields, facto 446. ENDRICK WATER rises among the Lennox Hills, 3 miles south-west of Gargunnock, and runs 18 miles westward to Loch Lomond, 2 miles west of Buch-ries, and human dwellings; yet continue anan House. Its chief tributary is the Blane. Its valley is celebrated under the name of "Sweet Ennerdale" in the old song of "The Gallant Grahams." Its waters contain trout, pike, perch, and roach; and are sometimes frequented, during floods, by sea trout. 447. KILMARONOCK parish lies along the foot of Loch Lomond, and contains both the Drymen and the Kilmaronock Stations. It anciently had a Culdee cell, founded by Maronnan or Maronoch; and afterwards a nunnery, referred to in "The Lady of the Lake," where Ellen Douglas is spoken of as a "votaress in Maronnan's cell." Ross Priory, the seat of Lady Leith Buchanan, stands on the shore of Loch Lomond, and was much frequented by Sir Walter Scott while writing his "Rob Roy." Catter House, W. G. Jolly, Esq.; Caldarven House, R. D. Mackenzie, Esq.; and Auchincarroch House, James M'Alister, Esq., are not far from the railway; and the first stands near the site of an extinct residence of the Earls of Lennox. Duncruin Hill, to the right of the railway, 24 miles beyond Drymen Station, and about to display a fascinating amount of gentle beauty. The stream contains salmon, sea trout, and several kinds of freshwater fish. 449. BALLOCH is the meeting point of the Forth and Clyde Railway with the Glasgow, Dumbarton, and Vale of Leven Railway; and, though 1 mile below the efflux of the Leven from Loch Lomond, is also the starting point of the Loch Lomond steamers. Tilliechewan Castle, William Campbell, Esq.; Lennox bank House, A. Orr Ewing, Esq.; and Dalvait Cottage, James Nairn, Esq., are adjacent; and the first is an elegant modern castellated edifice amid splendid grounds. A handsome Suspension Bridge, erected by Sir James Colquhoun of Luss, spans the Leven; and a large good inn stands at the east end. Balloch Castle, the seat of A. J. D. Brown, Esq., is further north. The original Balloch Castle was a fortified residence of the Earls of Lennox, but has disappeared. Jamestown village, in the vicinity, has a post office under Glasgow, and about 400 inhabitants. MARYHILL-GARSCUBE. 149 XXXII.-FROM GLASGOW TO LOCH LOMOND. Paragraph By railway from the Edin- Garscadden, right; view front..... Dalmuir Station, 9 431 68 western termination of left..... 457 station, 15 miles........ 458 Leven Water, crossed... 448 Para graph Railway to Helensburgh, 450. MARYHILL is a pleasant, mo-manorial style, built in 1827, after a dern, small, manufacturing town, 3 miles design by W. Burn. Killermont House, by road north-north-west of Glasgow. a mile further up the Kelvin, the seat of It stands on the brow of a brae, adjacent J. C. Colquhoun, Esq., is a large, eleto the left bank of the Kelvin, at a point gant edifice, of different dates. Garscadwhere the Forth and Clyde Canal has a den, 3 miles west-north-west of Killerchain of locks, and a lofty aqueduct, and mont, and belonging to the same propriein view of a charming reach of the Kel- tor, has an elegant, castellated, Gothic vin's vale. It has a post office under gateway, larger and more imposing than Glasgow, a banking office, a public li- any other structure of its class in the brary, and four places of worship; and west of Scotland. Kilmardinny, 2 miles it communicates with Glasgow several north-north-east of Garscube, the seat of times a day by public coach. Its popu- Robert Dalgleish, Esq., is a handsome lation is about 3500. mansion, amid charming grounds, with 451. GARSCUBE hamlet, 5 miles by a beautiful lakelet. New Kilpatrick, 1 road north-west of Glasgow, stands on mile north-north-west of Garscube, is a the right bank of the Kelvin, at a pic- small village, with a post office under turesque point of that river's romantic Glasgow, and a parish church. Milnvale. Garscube House, in its vicinity, gavie, on Allander Water, a mile north the seat of Sir Archibald Islay Campbell, of Kilmardinny, is a seat of manufacture, Bart.. is an edifice in the old English | with a post office under Glasgow, a public 150 DALMUIR-DUMBUCK HILL. library, two places of worship, and about | Canal, a chain of villages, a long range 2000 inhabitants. Craigmaddie estate, of wooden wharf, a ship-building yard, 23 miles north-east of Milngavie, the property of Spence Black, Esq., contains a stately modern mansion; a fragmentary ruin of an ancient castle; a group of cairns, said to be memorials of a battle between the Scandinavians and the Picts; and a remarkable cromlech, 18 feet long and 11 feet broad, called the Auld Wives' Lift. The road from Milngavie, past Craigmaddie, leads to Strathblane. See 444. 452. DALMUIR village, in the vicinity of Dalmuir Station, has a post office under Glasgow, and about 300 inhabitants. Auchentoshan and Mountblow mansions, the former the seat of A. Dunn, Esq., stand on the face of the neighbouring brae. Duntocher, situated among the hills about a mile north of the station, has four large factories, a post office under Glasgow, a public library, five places of worship, and about 2600 inhabitants. An ancient bridge, alleged to be Roman, bestrides the streamlet at it; and a strong Roman fort stood on an adjacent hill, and has yielded many Roman relics, which are preserved in the Hunterian Museum at Glasgow. 453. KILPATRICK village, or Old Kilpatrick, in the vicinity of Kilpatrick Station, has a post office under Glasgow, an inn called the Red Lion, three places of worship, and about 1000 inhabitants, and claims to be the native place of Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland. The parish church, at its west end, is a neat edifice with an embrasured tower, built in 1812. Dalnotter Hill, a little to the east, commands a superb view. Chapel Hill, a quarter of a mile to the west, was the site of the western terminal forts of Antoninus' Wall, and has yielded many Roman relics, including two monumental tablets preserved in the Hunterian Museum at Glasgow. 454. BOWLING BAY comprises the western end of the Forth and Clyde a large embanked pool for emberthing steamers during winter, and the buildings of the railway station, with the spacious hotel of Frisky Hall, altogether extending about half a mile along the Clyde. The population, including numerous neat residences on the neighbouring slopes, is about 500. The surrounding scenery, up the hills, across to Erskine, and down the Clyde, shows a rich variety of wood and water, rock and brae, close beauty and fine perspective. Glenarbuck ravine, looking like a broad deep rent down the face of the hills, appears to have been formed by the vertical stroke of an earthquake. 455. DUNGLASS is a small rocky promontory on the right side of the Clyde, a short distance below the Bowling Station. Its highest point is crowned by an obelisk, built in 1839, to the memory of Henry Bell; its north shoulder is occupied by a modern cottage, in the old Scottish style of architecture; and its crest, all round, is edificed with loop-holed, ivy-clad remains of an ancient castle, the stronghold of the chief of the clan Colquhoun. Several villages and villas stand in its vicinity; and Auchentorlie House, a new edifice, the seat of Andrew Buchanan, Esq., stands amid fine old wood on the neighbouring brae. 456. DUMBUCK HILL, about a mile east of Dumbarton Castle, is a bold abutment from the western extremity of the Lennox Hills, stooping precipitously to the plain. It rises so much higher than Dumbarton Castle as nearly to command it. Guns are said to have been placed on it by the Pretender's army in 1745, with little effect, though the artillery of the present day could not fail to play from it with shattering power. Its summit commands a grand view from Tinto to Arran, and from the Grampians to Ayrshire. Dumbuck village, with about 140 inhabitants; Dumbuck House, the seat of John E. Geils, Esq.; and |