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admiration, by the many turrets and gilded balus- 

 trades at top ; you have a full prospect of the gardens 

 on each side, cut out into grass plots, and adorned with 

 evergreens. In the first floor there are thirty-eight 

 fine rooms. When the Pretender lay here, they made 

 eighty-eight beds within the house, for him and his 

 retinue, besides the inferior servants, who lay in the 

 offices out of doors. 



Dunkeld. 



The Duke of Athol hath here a very noble seat, 

 with large gardens. 



Palace of Falkland. 



Here were spacious gardens, with a park ; but 



' Nunc seges est tMque Trqjafuit.' 



Culross. 



One cannot imagine a noble palace ; a terrace as 

 long and as broad as that at Windsor, with a pavilion 

 at each end, and below the terrace run hanging 

 gardens for half-a-mile, down to the Frith; the 

 design of these gardens was vast. When Lord 

 Mar was laying out his fine gardens at Alloway, he 

 thanked God that Culross was not his, for the 

 expense of keeping it up would ruin him. 



