ROBERT DICK. 



CHAPTEE I. 



TULLIBODY. 



THE village of Tullibody stands upon a rising ground 

 situated between the windings of the Forth and the 

 Devon, in Clackmannanshire, Scotland. The Devon 

 takes its rise among the burns and rivulets which 

 flow down from the Ochil Hills. 



At the upper part of the river, some of the most 

 romantic scenery in Scotland is to be found. At the 

 Caldron Linn the Devon forms a series of cascades, 

 which rush down through precipitous rocks into almost 

 unseen depths. Boiling about in the Caldrons, it passes 

 with a violent noise under the Eumblin' Brig, which 

 spans the rocks about a hundred and twenty feet above 

 the bed of the river. 



Another affluent of the Devon comes down from the 

 Ochils at Castle Campbell Castle of Gloom, as it used 

 to be called a ruined building occupying a wild and 

 romantic situation on the summit of a high and almost 

 insulated rock. The mount on which it is situated is 

 nearly encompassed on all sides by tliick bosky woods ; 

 and the mountain rivulets which tumble down through 



