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Note XIII. 



The flourishing streets of Calvin. P. 129. 

 On the Kelvin and the Blane, which last, though the livelier 

 trouting stream of the two, is not expressly mentioned by our au- 

 thor, stand the gentlemen's seats which he has commemorated ; 

 Duntreath, the seat of the Edmonstones, and Craig-Barnet and Glo- 

 rat, belonging to families of the name of Stirling. The little old 

 castle, or rather tower of Glorat, which furnishes our author with so 

 much mirth, is still in existence. 



Note XIV. 



KilsgthCampsie.?. 130. 



Near Kilsyth, as the author remarks, Montrose, in 1645, gained 

 his last, and most splendid victory, in which four or five thousand 

 of the vanquished fell in the flight and pursuit. The Campsie 

 hills, although " their weeping rocks" cannot be said to moisten 

 the air, to the degree intimated in the text, are situated so as to 

 catch the vapours, whether they rise from the Frith of Clyde, or 

 from the Frith of Forth; and, accordingly, the climate is very moist. 



Note XV. 



Minevir Drumon Castle Mockeny.P. 136. 

 The parish of Moni vaird, the ancient castle of the house of Drum- 

 mond, and Mohany, belonging to an ancient branch of the same fa- 

 mily, are all in Perthshire. 



Note XVI. 



Kinnule, that tantalized the tailor with an invisible stone. P. 146. 

 This legend, which our author tells at some length, is also nar- 

 rated by one of the Italian novelists, (which of that amusing class 

 I do not remember,) and was probably the original invention of some 

 Norman diseur. But tradition had early assigned it a local scene on 

 the hill of Kinnoul, near Perth, and it is accordingly alluded to by 

 Adamson, in his Mnse* Threnodie, The Dragon-hole, in which it 



