DUNBLANE MINERAL SPRING. CALLENDER. 



The rebel army lost, on this melancholy occasion, the earl of Strathmore, 

 Clanronald, and several persons of distinction. Panmure, and Drummond of 

 Logie were among the wounded. Among the causes which the insurgent 

 leaders assigned as an apology for their indecision, was the conduct of Rob Roy,* 

 who, in the absence of his brother, commanded the M'Gregors, and on the 

 day of battle kept aloof, waiting only for an opportunity to plunder. 



The mineral spring, already noticed, is about two miles from the village of 

 Dunblane, and was discovered about twenty years ago, by its having become 

 the resort of pigeons, which flocked round the small pools formed by the water 

 in its descent. It issues from two springs of various strength, f and, in its 

 medicinal qualities, which are found highly serviceable in general debility 

 and dyspeptic cases, resembles the celebrated Pitkaithly. The climate of the 

 place is mild and salubrious, and the district well sheltered by surrounding 

 mountains. The scenery will recall the popular ballad, long known to all 

 lovers of Scottish song, the " Flower o' Dunblane." 



Resuming our route through the vale of the Teith, we advance through a 

 pastoral district of sloping uplands and waving woods, with here and there fea- 

 tures of the olden time and modern improvement rising in contrast before us. Of 

 these, Lanrick Castle and Cambusmore the former, the residence of the Baronet 

 M'Gregor, and the latter, of John Buchanan, Esq., are princely seats, and in 

 fine keeping with the scenery. Callender, the " Capital of the Trosachs," which 

 has risen into importance in consequence of the celebrity conferred on the district 

 by the genius of Scott, consists chiefly of a long row of houses flanking the road 

 right and left all slated and white-washed, and having the door and window- 

 sashes painted green. It contains a neat church and school-house, and a large 

 commodious inn. On the north the horizon is bounded by an imposing rampart 

 of hills, sprinkled with trees, and presenting a bold, perpendicular front, 



Bracklin Bridge, about twenty minutes' walk from the village, and the scene 

 of the accompanying illustration, is one of the most remarkable of its kind. 

 The cascade, " Bracklin's thundering wave," consists of a series of minor falls, 

 shelving rapids, and dark linns, formed by the torrent-stream of the Keltic, 

 in its progress through a low, rugged chasm, dashing down a succession of 

 horizontal ledges of rock, about fifty feet in height. In former times it was 

 considered a trial of some skill and fortitude to pass this torrent by a narrow, 



Life of John, Duke of Argyll, p. 205. Struthers. History of the Rebellion, by Rae. Chambers. 



t The ingredients in a pint of the water, are: Muriate of soda, twenty-four grains; muriate of lime, 

 eighteen grains: sulphate of lime, three grains and a half; carbonate of lime, half a grain , with slight 

 indications of iron. 



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