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times, by many small tumuli, and still contains two standing-stones, one of them bearing the name of Denmark.

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The battle-field was marked, till recent | House, 1 mile above the village, overhung by a romantic eminence called the Craig of Stenton, is the seat of T. G. Murray, Esq.; and Eastwood, nearer Dunkeld, amid beautiful grounds, is the seat of Lord James Murray. The Loch of the Lowes, 1 mile north-east of Dunkeld, covers about 2 square miles, offers fine subjects for the pencil, and abounds with pike and large perch. Murthly Castle, on the right side of the Tay, between Caputh and Stenton, is a splendid but unfinished structure, in the Tudor style, the chief seat of Sir William D. Stewart, Bart. An old castle, of great antiquity, stands within 150 feet of it; and an elegant, restored, ancient Roman Catholic chapel stands a little north of the old castle. surrounding grounds possess exquisite beauty, both natural and artificial, and are always open to respectable strangers.

1005. STANLEY, on high ground near the Tay, contains cotton mills, a post office under Perth, an inn, an Established Church of 1828, with a tower, and a Free Church. Its population in 1851 was 1769. Stanley House, adjacent to it, the seat of Samuel Howard, Esq., is a renovated old residence of Lord Nairne, who suffered attaint for participation in the rebellion of 1745. Tully belton House, the seat of General R. Robertson, and the site of the chief seat of Lord Nairne, are some distance to the west. Inchbervie, about half a mile east of Stanley House, is a curious ruin, with the appearance of an old fortalice, but supposed to have been a property of the abbots of Dunfermline. Campsie Linn, on the Tay, a short distance above Stanley, mentioned in the "Fair Maid of Perth," is a picturesque cataract over ledges of basaltic rock, and affords good scope for salmon-fishing. Taymount, on the opposite bank, is the residence of the Hon. David Murray.

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1008. BIRNAM HILL rises to an altitude of 1580 feet above the level of the sea, and commands a magnificent view. It was anciently included in a royal forest, and has been immortalized by the pen of Shakespeare. Its old woods are all gone, but thriving young ones 1006. BANKFOOT, on the road from have taken their places. "Duncan's Perth to Dunkeld, nearly midway be- Hill," where King Duncan held his tween them, contains a post office under court, together with vestiges of a round Perth, the parish church of Auchter- fort, appears on the acclivity; and regaven, two other places of worship, and mains of a vitrified fort are seen on the about 800 inhabitants. The tract around summit. Birnam Pass, sometimes known it is a mixture of hill and dale, drained as the "Mouth of the Highlands," preby the Ordie. Airley wight, in its sents a miniature of many of the best of vicinity, is the mansion of Mr. Wylie. the Highland glens, with the addition The poet Nichol was a native of Bank- of a slow, majestic river. The Railfoot, and has sung the "Folk o' Ochter-way Terminus, a new Gothic Episcopal gaen" (Auchtergaven), and the "Bonnie Ordie Braes."

Church, the neat modern villa of Torwood, the spacious Saxon-Gothic Birnam Hotel, the small village of Burnside, and the Parish Church of Little Dunkeld, occur between Birnam Pass and Dunkeld Bridge.

1007. CAPUTH village, on the left side of the Tay, 5 miles south-east of Dunkeld, contains a very plain parish church. The parish connected with it includes most of the brilliant, lake- 1009. DUNKELD stands on low ground, studded district of Stormont, beyond contiguous to the Tay, immediately enthe limits of our present route, and also vironed by lofty, diversified, wood-clad, goes up the Tay to Dunkeld. Stenton | romantic hills. Its appearance, in all

church; and a number of interesting monuments, both ancient and modern, occur within the Cathedral, and in the contiguous burying-ground.

outward views of it, especially on the "Wolf of Badenoch," in panoply of emergence from Birnam Pass, is strik-mail, stands in the vestibule of the parish ingly picturesque. The approach to it across the river is a splendid bridge, 685 feet long, 27 feet wide, 54 feet high, with five principal arches, and two end ones, built in 1809, at a cost of £40,000. A modern street of handsome buildings, with the Athole Arms Hotel at one end of it, facing the river, and the Royal Hotel at the further end, stands on a line with the bridge; and an old street, with some lanes, goes off at right angles. The Cathedral, shaded on one side by trees, flanked on the other by a flower garden, stands a little apart from the upper end of the old street, overlooking the Tay, and offering a fine subject for the pencil. The edifice dates from various periods between the middle of the 12th century and the latter part of the 15th, and shows a variety of styles, ranging from the later Norman to the later Gothic. Its choir was renovated in 1820, at a cost of about £5400, and is now used as the parish church. Its other parts, measuring 122 feet by 62, are unroofed and ruinous, but otherwise in tolerable preservation, and were so far repaired and strengthened in 1817 as to arrest decay. The great western window, together with decorations on the gable above it, is a remarkable feature, possessing much interest for artists; and the windows in the side-walls, lighting the aisles, present no fewer than eight or nine distinct patterns, all of much beauty. The tower stands at the north-west angle; measures 24 feet in width, and 99 feet in height; and is a plain, buttressed structure, with three tiers of ornamental windows. The chapter-house, attached to the north side of the Cathedral, is still entire; shows four tall lancet windows, with trefoil heads; and contains a fine marble statue of the fourth Duke of Athole, erected in 1833, and monuments of other members of the Athole family. A large stone effigy of the

A Culdean establishment was founded at Dunkeld in 570; and this, in the course of time, was transmuted, first into a Romish monastery, next into the seat of a diocese. The bishop's residence may at first have been a simple building, but was eventually altered into a strong castle. Two chapels stood in the vicinity, subordinate to the Cathedral, but are now extinct. A strong fort, for commanding Strathtay, stood on the site of the town, or in its near neighbourhood, from a date prior to the founding of the Culdean establishment; served for centuries as one of the keys of the kingdom of Pictavia; and was used by a number of both the Pictish and the Scottish kings as an occasional residence, for enjoying the sports of the chase. Dunkeld was the scene of a sharp action in 1689 between the Jacobites and the Royalists; and it suffered sweeping desolation at the hands of the Jacobite victors; but it soon was restored by the Athole family; and it twice, in the course of a few years afterwards, had the offer of being made a royal burgh. It has long been a place of attraction to wealthy visitors, for sake of the superb scenery which surrounds it; and it was honoured, some hours in September 1842, and again in September 1844, by the presence of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, when on their way to Taymouth and to BlairAthole. It contains a key post office and three banking offices; runs public coaches to Kenmore and Blair-Athole; and offers to tourists all desirable facilities of hired vehicles and guides. The chief places visited from it are the grounds of the Duke of Athole, the hills of Craigiebarns and Birnam, the grounds of Murthly, the scenes of the River Bran, the Loch of the Lowes, and the lakes of