298 FIELD AND PERN. 



PERTH f KE3R. 



" Study their monuments, their gravestones, their epitaphs, on the spots 

 -,vhere they lie : study, if possible, the scenes of the events, their aspect, their 

 architecture, their geography ; the tradition which has survived the history ; 

 the legend which has survived the tradition ; the mountain, the stream, the 

 shapeless stone, which has survived even history and tradition and legend." 



DEAN STANLEY'S EASTERN CHUECH. 



The Strathallan Castle Herd Walk to Rob Roy's Grave Pern Thatching 

 TheBxaes of Balquhidder Points of West Highland Cattle Black- 

 faced Sheep " M'Claren's Cow" Recollections of Deanstown 

 Keir The Steading Clydesdales, Shorthorns, and Garden. 



PLEASANT Perth was left at last. We wended our way 

 through the country once hunted by James Moray 

 of Abercairney, and then by John Grant of Kilgras- 

 ton, but now unhappily devoted to wire fences instead 

 of foxes, and so on past Auchterarder, whose humble 

 steeple (with what looks like a golden bird pluming 

 its wings to fly, but proves on closer inspection to 

 be a griffin), marks where the Kirk of Scotland was 

 rent in twain. Strathallan Castle and its shorthorns 

 were our goal that day. His lordship began from Bates 

 (whose Wild Eyes did no good), Robertson, and Stir- 

 ling, uncle of the present member for Perthshire, and 

 bought his bulls from Yorkshire. The principal 

 tribes are from Julia by Belted Will, descended 

 from Mr. Shaftoe of Whitworth's stock, and White 



