TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



VOL. I. 



Pages 



SCOTLAND. — Introduction. ..Progress of Improvement.. .Highland Characteristic8...Po!iticaI History 



...Military Renown. ..Literature.. .Agriculture. ..Moral Character. ..Migratory Propensity.. .Scenery. 1 — 12 



BERWICKSHIRE. — Three Di visions. ..Merse.... Lauderdale.. ..Lammermoor.... Ancient Condition.... 

 Improvements.. .Agriculture. ..Berwick. ..Historical Recollections.. .Suspension Bridge.. .Coldstream 

 ...Brydone...Kames...Hume Castle. ..Signal Stations.. .Gordon Parish, iind Family. ..Greenlaw... 

 Marchmont House.. .Sir Patrick Hume...Polwarth Thorn. ..Curious Legend. ..Religious Houses... 

 Antiquities.. .Families of Spottiswoode, Home, Veitch... Lauder.. .Thirlstane Castle.. .The Leader 

 River.. ..Thomas the Rhymer.. ..Lady Grizzle Baillie.. ..Suspension Bridge. ...Statue of Wallace.... 

 Dryburgh Abbey. ..Sir Walter Scott. ..Funeral Procession. ..Dunse... Town and C;istle...The Cove- 

 nanters.. .Coldingham Priory.-St.Abb's Head. ..Fast Castle... Peath's Bridge.. . St. Bathans... Character 

 of the Peasantry.. .Customs and Amusements.. .Domestic Life and Habits.. .Employments. ..Salmon 

 Fishing. .Geological and Botanical Productions, &c. &c. 13 — 51 



DISTRICT OF Lothian.— Haddingtonshire.. .Town and Castle of Dunbar.. .Black Agnes.. .Har- 

 bour.. .Battles.. .T3niinghaniHouse... Haddington. ..Floods. ..North Berwick La w...Tamtallan Castle... 

 The Bass... Soland Geese.. .The Battle of Preston Pans.. .Colonel Gardiner.. .Macgregor of Glengyle... 

 Colonel Whiteford... Blair.. .Home.. .John Knox. ..Dunbar.. .Bishop Burnet... Fletcher of Salton... 

 Lord Milton. ..Seton House.. .Gosford House.. .Lethington Castle. ..Sir Richard Maitland...Yester 

 Castle...CoIston...Battlesof Pinkie and Carlrerry Hill. .."Mary's Mount". ..Inveresk...Roslyn Castle 

 ...Chapel...Sumptuous state ofthe ancient Earls... Battles... Hawthornden...Dnmimond. ..Ben. lonson 

 ...Arniston... Dalkeith Palace. ..Horticulture.. .Town of Dalkeith... Coalfield. ..Craigmillar Castle. 5! — 141) 



EDINBURGH. — Approach to. ..Curious Picture of the Castle. ..Randolph's Stratagem. ..Guy of 

 Namur...An Amazon. ..Sieges.. .The West Bow. ..Covenanters. ..The High Street. ..Improvemeirts... 

 Church of St. Giles. ...Parliament Close.... Advocate's Library... .University.... Botanic Garden.... 

 Learned Men. ..Royal Donations ..High School. ..Seminaries of Learning.. .Eleemosynary Establish- 

 ments.. .Heriot's Hospital. ..Churches. ..Learned Societies.. .The Canongate... Nether Bow. ..Church... 

 Marquis of Montrose. ..Palace of Holyrood... Queen Mary.. .Murders of Rizzio and Darnley... 

 Abbey and Chapel. ..The King's Park. ..St. Anthony's Chapel. ..St. Leonard's Craigs... Arthur's Seat 

 ....Duddingston....Basaltic Columns.. ..Calton Hil!....Monuments....The High School.. ..Register 

 House, Bridewell, &e...Inch Colm...Inch Keith. ..Town and Harbour of Leith... Landing of 

 George IV. ..Edinburgh during the King's Visit.. .Entrance to the City.. .Drawing Room and 

 Levee. ..Procession to the Castle. ..Service in the High Church. ..Visit to Melville Castle.. .To 

 Newbattle Abbey.. .Dalkeith Palace... Hopeton House... Departure.. .Queensferry and Port Edgar 

 ...Blackness 140— U.'l 



LINLITHGOW. — Castle.. .Grangemouth... Linlithgow.. ..Binnoch's Stratagem. ..Palace.. .Assassination 

 of the Regent Murray.. .Battle of Linlithgow.. .Antiquities.. .Hamilton of Bangour...Wilkie...Earl 

 of Stair.. .Horticulture. ..Manufactures.. .Geological Productions, &c. Sec. 



STIRLINGSHIRE Introduction. ..Battle of Falkirk... Graham. ..Carron Iron Work3...Forth and 



Clyde Canal. ..Antiquities.. .Stirling Castle.. .Assassination of Earl Douglas... Parliament House... 

 Battle of Sauchie... Death of .Tames III. ..Christening of Prince Henry.. .Magnificent Offerings... 

 Baptismal Fetes.. .Pageant at Baptism of King James VI. ..Pestilence.. .Tournaments.. .The Flying 

 Friar.. .View from the Castle.. .Cambuskenneth... Links of Forth... Ancient Buildings.. .Families... 

 Field of Bannockburn, &c. &c. ......... 149— 17(i 



AYRSHIRE. — The Land of Burns. ..The County, its Resources, Extent, Appear-inee, Soil, Products, 

 Population, &c...Town of Ayr.. .The Two Bridges, Old and New... Water of Ayr...Alloway Kirk... 

 Burns' Slonument.. Description of its Architecture and Contents.. .Tam o' Shanter, and Souter 

 Johnny.. .Banks of Ayr... Ballochmyle... Bums' Letter.. .Bridge of Doon...Poem of Tam o' Shanter, 

 its Origin, Groundwork, Anecdotes.. .Turuberry Castle. ..Bruce's Landing, &c. &c...Rock of Ailsa 

 ...Cross-regal Abbey. ..Toivn of Ma3'bole...Cassillis Family.. .Castle. ..Elopement of the Countess... 

 Johnny Faa and the Gipsevs...Colzean Castle.. .Description, &c. &c. . . . 177—189 



COUNTIES OF DUMFRIES AND ROXBURGH.— Sketch of Dumfriesshire, its Physical and 

 Moral Features. .Lochar Moss.. .Steam Plough. ..Antiquities.. .Moorland Districts.. .Auld Langsyne... 

 Castles and Border Towers.. .Superstitions.. .Improvements in Commerce, Agriculture, &c...Drum- 

 lanrigCastle... James, Duke of Q,ueensberry...VaIeof the Nith... Prominent Features.. .Reminiscences 

 ...Lincluden College.. .Description. ..Douglasses.. .Dumfries, Sketch ofthe Town. ..Its Anti^juity and 

 Historical Epochs.. .Public Buildings and Institutions... Bruce and Coniyn...St. Michael's Church- 

 Yard. ..Bums' Mausoleum, &c. &c... Valley of the Esk....Gilknockie Hall. ...Armstrong.. ..His 

 Appearance before James V... Address, and Death. ..Beatties of Eskdale Moor.. .Seizure of their 

 ancient Possessions. .......... 18:1 — 19.5 



ROXBURGHSHIRE.— Outline of the County.. .Political, and Poetical. ..Monastic Remains of 

 Teviotdale... Sketch of Monastic Life and Influence, &c. &c... Jedburgh Abbey.. . Description .. 

 Suppression. ..Annexed to the Crown. ..Melrose Abbey.. .Its Foundation... The Cistercian Brother- 

 hood. ..Conjectures as to their Employment, &c... Banks ofthe Tweed. ..Abbotsfoid... Kelso. ..Scenery 

 and Associations.. .Kelso Abbey.. .Its Foundation, Demolition, &c. &c. . . . Iflli — 200 



X.B. Tlienbove Volume will he found to contain :—Sketches of nistorij; Statistics; Society and Manners ; 

 Education, Literature, and Science ; Mineraloi/i/, Botany, Geolony ; Bioyraphical and Characteristic Notices ; 

 Anecdotes and Traditions ; Popular Customs and Annisements ; Arts, Agriculture, Produce, Manufactures ; 

 with much diversified matter ; the results of personal intercourse with the country and people of Scotland. 



The Poetry interspersed in this Volume, unless where otherwise marked, is original. 



•«• The feat of strength ascrilied to Sir Alexander Ramsay, at page 93, has heen attributed by other autliorities to j 

 contemporary champion of the name of Asnand. — Note from Corresp, 



