370 ANSTRUTHER-PITTENWEEM. Esq. Airdrie House, 2 miles to the north, was the residence and the deathplace in 1830 of the Earl of Kellie; and includes an old tower which commands a grand view of the Frith of Forth and the Lothians. 1103. ANSTRUTHER extends in a slender band along the shore; includes Cellardykes, Anstruther-Easter, and Anstruther - Wester; and constitutes two royal burghs, and part of a third, all grouped in the franchise with St. Andrews. It contains a key post office, three banking offices, two parish churches, and four other places of worship; and it carries on some small manufactures, and some fishings and commerce. One of its parish churches is a very ancient Gothic structure with a steeple. The Maggie Lauder of famous song, Dr. Tennant, the author of "Anster Fair," and the Rev. Dr. Chalmers, were natives. The population is about 2840. St. 1104. PITTENWEEM is a post town, a sea-port, and a royal burgh. It includes three parallel streets, with several intersecting lanes, and is well built and pleasant. It contains curious remains of an Augustinian priory of the 12th century,-some of them used as a parish church. It has a regular burgh government, and is grouped in the parliamentary franchise with St. Andrews. Its population in 1851 was 1450. Monans, 11⁄2 mile to the west, is also a sea-port, and has a post office under Pittenweem, a renovated, ancient, Gothic church, and about 1040 inhabitants. Balcaskie, 2 miles north-west of Pittenweem, the seat of Sir R. A. Anstruther, Bart., is a fine old edifice. Kellie Castle, a little further north, the property of the Earl of Mar, was once a grand mansion, but is now occupied by a farmer. THE SIDLAW HILLS. 371 FOURTEENTH DIVISION. STRATHMORE, ANGUS, AND MEARNS. THIS district is variously flat, hilly, and mountainous. One tract of it is the Carse of Gowrie, extending along the upper half of the Frith of Tay; another, and much larger, is a broad, hanging plain, diversified with hills and levels, extending along the lower part of the Frith, and along the German Ocean; a third is the range of the Sidlaw Hills, striking north-eastward from the vicinity of Perth to the sea; a fourth is Strathmore, a belt of plain, relieved only by small, soft eminences, and extending along all the north-west side of the Sidlaws; and a fifth is a section of the Grampians, cloven with glens, and running up to all the water-shed from the sources of the Isla to the subsidence into low spurs in the neighbourhood of Aberdeen. Nearly all parts of the district which possess interest for tourists lie within three railway routes—from Perth to Dundee, from Perth to Aberdeen, and from Dundee to Aberdeen. 1105. THE SIDLAW HILLS com- of Forfar; and fork there into two lines, mence at Kinnoul, immediately south- the one going 18 miles east-north-easteast of Perth; go 21 miles north-east- ward to the coast at Redhead, the other ward to a point 6 miles south-south-west 38 miles north-eastward to the coast in 372 KINFAUNS CASTLE-ERROL. the vicinity of Stonehaven. All their | a mansion, an inn, a post office under parts of main bulk occur between Kin- Perth, and a railway station. Glen noul and the fork; and these are vari- doig House, at the foot of a beautiously ridges, tableaux, and isolated hills, fully-wooded hill, some distance beyond with intersecting hollows. Their breadth the station, is the seat of Lawrence varies from 3 to 6 miles; and their Craigie, Esq. Pitfour Castle, near the height rises frequently to upwards of 1000 | Tay to the south, a large, quadrangular, feet above the level of the sea, but no- turreted edifice, is the seat of Sir John where to more than 1406 feet. Their pre- S. Richardson. St. Madoes Church, on dominant rock is the old red sandstone. the hither side of Pitfour, appears to occupy the site of a Culdee cell; and the church-yard connected with it contains a fine Runic monument. The name, St. Madoes, points to the Culdee missionary Madock, but has been popularly corrupted into Semmiedores; and an old ballad speaks of "the stannin' stanes o' Semmiedores." 1109. ERROL village, fully a mile south-west of Errol Station, stands on a swell amid the Carse, commanding an extensive view; contains a key post office, a parish church, and three other places of worship; has about 1300 inhabitants, and gives the title of Earl to the family of Hay. The parish church is an erection of 1831, a large cruciform 1106. KINFAUNS CASTLE, the seat of Lord Gray, is a splendid edifice of 1822, after a design by Smirke; and contains a rich collection of objects of vertu, and an ancient sword which competes with that in Dumbarton Castle the claim of having been the sword of Sir William Wallace. The surrounding grounds are a picturesque assemblage of hill, slope, and crag, laden with wood, and highly embellished. Balthayock House, in an opening among the hills, a mile to the north-east, is the seat of Neil F. Blair, Esq.; and Balthayock Castle, adjacent to that mansion, is the ruin of an ancient strong fortalice, supposed to have belonged to the Knights Templars. Seggieden, near the Tay, a mile south-edifice, in chaste Norman style, with east of Kinfauns Castle, is the seat of Mrs. Drummond Hay; and Inchyra House, a mile further down, is the property of the heirs of Robert Chrystall, Esq. All the scenery hither from Perth is exquisitely beautiful; and a view, beside a cottage and tree, a little below Seggieden, is surpassingly rich. square tower, after a design by Gillespie Graham. Errol House, in the vicinity of the village, was formerly the seat of the Earls of Errol, but now belongs to Mr. Allen, and is at present inhabited by Sir James G. Baird, Bart. Murie, further west, is the seat of Mr. Yea man. Megginch Castle, in the northwestern neighbourhood of the station, an edifice of 1575, is the seat of John M. Drummond, Esq. Kilspindie village, 1 1107. THE CARSE OF GOWRIE is a low, flat, alluvial tract, 13 miles long, and from 2 to 4 miles broad, lying between the Tay and the Sidlaws, and ex-mile further to the north-west, contains tending from the vicinity of Kinfauns to a parish church, had anciently a castle, Invergowrie. It is all rich corn land, in and figures in the narrative of Blind a high state of cultivation. It appears Harry as the place of Sir William Walto have lain under water far into the lace's boyhood. Fingask Castle, 13 mile human period; and some swells in it, north of Kilspindie, a castellated mannow called Inches, show a different soil sion, partly ancient, partly modern, is from the rest, and seem to have been the seat of Sir Patrick Murray Threipislands. land, Bart. Evelick Castle, in the same neighbourhood, is the ruin of the ancient fortalice of the Lindsays, knights of 1108. GLENCARSE estate, the property of Thomas Greig, Esq., contains INCHTURE-DUNDEE. east of the station, is the seat of Mr. Allen. 373 Evelick. Inchmartin, 1 mile north- | held crown lands around it, and began to build a palace on them, but saw cause to convey them to the monks of Scone. Invergowrie House and Mylnefield, in the vicinity, are the seats of Alexander Clayhills, Esq., and J. Mylne, Esq. Gray House, 13 mile to the north-north-west, is the family mansion of Lord Gray. Camperdown House, 13 mile north by east, a noble modern edifice, with octostyle Ionic portico, is the seat of the Earl of Camperdown. Liff Church, three-quarters of a mile north-west of Gray House, is a handsome Gothic edifice of 1831, with a steeple. 1110. INCHTURE village, a little north of Inchture Station, stands pleasantly on a swell of the Carse, and has a key post office, an inn, a neat Gothic church of 1834, and about 250 inhabitants. Castle Huntly, a short distance to the east, a grand old baronial mansion, on an abrupt rock, was once the seat of the Earls of Kinghorn, and is now the property of George Paterson, Esq. Rossie Priory, about a mile to the north, a splendid monastic-looking edifice of 1817, is the seat of Lord Kinnaird. Moncur Castle, within the grounds of Rossie Priory, is a wood-embosomed ruin of an ancient fortalice. Ballin dean, about a mile north-west of Inchture, a tasteful modern mansion, is the seat of Mr. Trotter. Kinnaird Castle, midway between Ballindean and Fingask, is a stately structure of the 12th century, built as a provincial fortalice of the Crown, inhabited some days in 1617 by James VI., now belonging to Sir P. M. Threipland, Bart., and outwardly renovated in 1855. 1111. LONGFORGAN village, northeast of Longforgan Station, straggles along a ridgy swell, about 135 feet high, with a splendid view over the Carse of Gowrie and the Tay; and has a post office under Dundee, a parish church, and about 470 inhabitants. Fowlis Church, 2 miles to the north, is a beautiful Saxon-Gothic edifice, built in the 12th century, and repaired in 1842; and the burying-place of Lord Gray adjoins it. Kingoodie Quarries, to the south of Longforgan, at the railway, are famous for the quality of their sandstone; and Kingoodie village, in the neighbourhood, on the Tay, has a small harbour for exporting the stone. 1113. LOCHEE, 1 mile north-west of Dundee, stands within that burgh's parliamentary boundaries, but has itself the bulk and importance of a town. It contains a post-office under Dundee; two chief inns, Small's and Tod's, and three places of worship; and it possesses four factories, and carries on extensive weaving. Its population in 1851 was 5332. Mains Tower, 11⁄2 mile north-east of it, adjacent to a picturesque ravine, called the Den of Mains, is the ruin of an ancient baronial fortalice. Claverhouse, a little west of this, was the patrimonial estate of the persecutor Graham, Viscount Dundee; and now contains a recent monumental structure, in the form of a ruin, on the site of his extinct mansion. Baldovan House, still further west, the seat of Sir John Ogilvie, Bart, is an elegant edifice of 1854, after designs by Coe and Goodwin. 1114. DUNDEE is a large sea-port, a seat of great manufacture, a royal burgh, and the third most populous town in Scotland. The tract around it rises rapidly from low shore, through undulating slopes, to rounded hills; is well embellished by art; and as seen from the Tay, or from the opposite shore, looks richly beautiful. Dundee Law, a an-dome-shaped hill, with verdant summit, 525 feet high, rises immediately behind the town; Balgay Hill, a lesser eminence, sheeted with wood, rises a little further 1112. INVERGOWRIE is a small, cient village, with a harbour, the ruins and church-yard of a very old church, and about 110 inhabitants. Alexander I. west; and both hills command a very | hall, 40 feet high, 130 feet long, and 60 splendid view. Vestiges of an ancient feet wide. The Court-rooms and Prisons fortification exist on the top of Dundee Law; and a stone at Pitalpie near its north-west skirt, marks the battle-field of a desperate conflict, in 834, between the Picts and the Scots. All the old parts of Dundee, and some of the modern extensions, stand along a strip of low ground adjacent to the shore; while some of the newer parts ascend the slopes which rise toward Dundee Law and Balgay Hill. Most of the town is irregular and ungraceful; but some of the newer streets, as well as some reedificed points in the chief of the old ones, are symmetrical and elegant. An oblong in the centre, called variously the High Street, the Market Place, and the Cross, is a very spacious and imposing thoroughfare. A modern street, called Reform Street, going off that oblong to the north, is edificed in a style which may compare with the best parts of Edinburgh. Some of the outskirts are occupied mainly by villas; while others are the noisy, murky nests of factories. The town, as a whole, with regard to its buildings and its general appearance, has undergone much greater improvement in recent years than any other large town in Scotland. The Town Hall, on the south side of High Street, is an edifice in RomanIonic, after a design by the elder Adam, built in 1734, renovated in 1854, disposed below in piazzas, and adorned above with a spire 140 feet high. The Royal Exchange, at the north end of Panmure Street, is a structure in the Flemish style, after a design by David Bryce of Edinburgh, erected in 1853-56, at a cost of upwards of £12,000; has a massive tower, terminating in carved parapet and flat roof; and contains a lofty ornate hall, 77 feet long, and 34 feet wide. The Corn Exchange, in Bank Street, is an edifice in the Anglo-Italian style, after a design by Charles Edward of Dundee, built in 1856-58; and contains a public off Ward Street, are an extensive pile, with severe Grecian features, after a design by Angus, built in 1836, at a cost of £26,000, and much enlarged in 1854. The Exchange Coffee-room, at the foot of Castle Street, is a handsome modern edifice with Doric and Ionic decorations, after a design by George Smith of Edinburgh, erected at a cost of £9000; and contains a reading-room, 73 feet by 38, with a marble bust of the late Lord Panmure by Steele. The Custom-House, on the south side of Dock Street, is an elegant edifice, with Roman-Ionic portico, after a design by Leslie and Taylor, built in 1843. The new Terminus of the Dundee and Arbroath Railway, near the Custom-House, is a neat, well-contrived building, after designs by Charles Ower. The Royal Arch, at the top of the Victoria Quay, is a structure in the Saxon style, 82 feet long, and 84 feet high, comprising central arch, side arches, and turrets, erected in 1850, after a design by J. T. Rochead of Glasgow, at a cost of upwards of £3000, to commemorate the landing of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert in 1844. Two Russian guns, taken in the Crimean war, stand in the open space before the Arch. The Barracks, situated on high ground, on the skirts of Dundee Law, have arrangements of a high order, and enclose the remains of Dudhope Castle, the ancient, strong, spacious residence of the Scrymseours, constables of Dundee. Three of the parish churches are contained in a cruciform Gothic edifice, near the centre of the town, partly reconstructed in 1842-7, at a cost of £11,135, partly preserved from ancient dates, and all united to a fine ancient tower, 156 feet high. St. Andrew's Church, off Cowgate, is a handsome structure with an elegant steeple, 139 feet high, built in 1772. St. Paul's Free Church, in Nethergate, is a neat, cruciform edifice, with a steeple 167 |