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that at this slow rate they would certainly be overtaken, they resolved to call 

 at the first house in their way, and that happening to belong to a friend, a 

 horse was procured, and having reached the sea, they were received on board 

 the Vulture sloop of war. 



But to return to the castle. When Niel Mac Vicar had drawn the last num- 

 ber, and while standing on the parapet had seen the disaster of his friends, he 

 carried the rope to his cell, where he substantially repaired and lengthened 

 it with shreds of blankets. This done, he returned to the battlements, and there 

 again fastening it, commenced his descent. But when he reached that part 

 where the fracture had taken place, and which he had endeavoured to secure 

 by adding greatly to its thickness, he found it beyond his grasp, and falling 

 from the same height that Mr. Barrow had done, but with no one to break 

 his fall, he was so seriously injured that he languished and died soon afterwards 

 at the house" of his father, a clergyman in the isle of Isla. 



Since the publication of " Waverley," the Castle of Doune has enjoyed much 

 additional celebrity, as the fortress to which the English hero was conveyed by 

 his Highland captors, and which the classic author of the novel has so vividly 

 depicted. The village of Doune is gradually rising into some degree of local 

 importance. A church, and many new houses have been recently added, and cotton 

 manufactures established near the bridge the latter a very pleasing substitute 

 for that of Highland pistols,* for which the village was originally famous. 



Cambus-Wallace, the ancient seat of the Edmonstones, and now that of Lord 

 Doune, eldest son of the earl of Moray, to whom the barony belongs, is in the 

 immediate vicinity. In his march from the Highlands, the " Chevalier" took 

 a cup of welcome, presented by a fair adherent, at its gate. 



Dunblane, though not immediately in our route, is too important to be passed 

 over in silence, and will amply repay the tourist, who, in pursuit of health or 

 amusement, makes a short sojourn in this much frequented neighbourhood. 

 For its recent celebrity, Dunblane is chiefly indebted to its mineral spring, 

 which, for several years past, has enjoyed high reputation for its medicinal 

 qualities. But, of itself, the scenery is so beautiful, and so rich in historical 

 associations, as to present no ordinary attraction to the summer tourist, " who 

 looks on Nature with a poet's eye." 



* While the ancient dress was in use, there was a great demand for Doune pistols, presents of which 

 were frequently sent by the nobility to foreign princes. The art was first introduced here about two 

 centuries ago, by Thomas Cadell, who was considered the first pistol-maker in Britain. Among the 

 national songs to which this district owes so many pleasing associations, we need only quote " The banks 

 and braes o' bonny Doune ;" " The bonny Earl of Moray," &c. 



