268 NOVEMBER 



re-opening of deserted highways, and the re- visiting 

 of scenes which must have been well known to 

 travellers in the coaching days. 



Such is the stretch of excellent Macadam lying 

 between Stirling and Callander, traversing a district 

 more thickly peopled with the past than many 

 others; for though the traveller turn his back on 

 Bannockburn, every step of the ground he crosses 

 has been fought over times beyond reckoning by 

 Pict and Briton, Roman and Gael, Highland cateran, 

 and lowland Scot, Stuart and Guelph. But now 

 these woods and crags, which have resounded so 

 often to the battle-cry of the hill-men or bellowed 

 with thunder of culverins, carthouns, basilisks, 

 serpents, and other mediaeval artillery, are shaken 

 by no sound more vengeful than the scream of 

 engines on the Caledonian railway. 



Traversing the scene of Wallace's triumph over 

 Cressingham and Surrey, and leaving the famous 

 Abbey Craig on the right, the road crosses the level 

 carse as far as the Bridge of Allan the Thermae 

 of Stirling and Glasgow where it climbs the ridge 

 dividing Strathallan from the Carse of Menteith. 

 As soon as you are clear of the woods of Keir, a 

 splendid prospect opens before you, and you should 



