GARTINCABER 



Again : 



TECVM HABITA ET NORIS QVAM - SIT TIBI . CVRTA SVPELLEX. 1 



The following sentiment : 



CONVIVAM CAVEO QVI SE MIHI COMPARAT ET RES 

 DESPICIT EXIGVAS, 2 



may have been inspired by the haughtiness of some 

 affluent neighbour ; the lord of Doune, perhaps, 

 whose great castle, though now in ruins, still scowls 

 defiance from the further shore of Teith. 



Even the latest addition to the old house bears 

 its appropriate legend, the gable of the new draw- 

 ing-room bearing one well expressing the spirit 

 which has attached this family to its ancient home : 



I DWELL AMONG MY - OWN PEOPLE. 3 



Of the two avenues which, planted at right angles 

 to each other, lead up to the house, the northern, 

 consisting of two double rows of beeches, has been 

 sorely wrecked by gales, but the west avenue is 

 still intact, a remarkable and far-seen feature in 

 the landscape. Running along the comb of a ridge, 

 it is composed of lime trees which appear to be 

 about 100 or 120 years old. The two rows are only 

 fifteen feet apart ; and the trees, set very closely 

 in the rows, have been drawn up to the height of 

 a hundred feet. There is no nobler prospect in 

 Scotland, none richer in historic association, than 



1 " Live by yourself, and you will find out how ill-furnished is your mind." 

 Persius, iv. 52. 



2 " I am on my guard against the guest who draws comparisons between himself 

 and me, and contemns my slender means." 



3 2 Kings iv. 13. 



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