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no\r a small village on tlie road leading over the Oetills, is interesting to arcLseo- 

 logists on account of its round tower. Crossing the Lower Earn at the villao-e of 

 Bridge, of Earn, a rival of Bridge of Allan, wo soon reach Perth, formerly a Roman 

 station, afterwards the capital of Scotland, and still a town of considerable note. 

 Seated at the head of the navigation of the Tay, and in the gorge which presented 

 the only easy means of communication between Fife and the fertile Strathmore, 

 its geographical position is admirable. In our ov\ti days Perth has become a 

 manufacturing town, with flax-mills, bleaching and dye works, woollen factories, 

 glass houses, and engineering shops, but the charms of its environs are as great as 

 ever. Scone Palace, a modern mansion in the neighbourhood, stands on the site 

 of a palace of the Kings of Scotland. The famous stone on which the Scotch 

 monarchs were crowned was kept in Scone Abbey, now in ruins, until Edward I. 

 transferred it to Westminster Abbey. 



Glen Almond joins the Tay above Perth. Within it lie the manufacturing 

 village of Methven, and Trinity College for the education of clergymen of the 

 Episcopal Church of Scotland. Continuing up the winding Tay, we pass Stanley, 

 with its cotton-mill ; obtain a glimpse of Dunsinane, where Macbeth (1056) 

 lost the battle which cost him his throne ; and reach the mouth of the Isla, which 

 flows through a part of Strathmore, and is fed by the Ericht and other rivers 

 descending from the Highlands. Blairgowrie, Cupar- Angus, and Ahjth, the only 

 towns of this district, are engaged in the linen trade. 



Dunkeld, beautifully seated on the Tay, enclosed by trees, above which 

 peep forth the ruins of its noble cathedral, lies on the threshold of the High- 

 lands, not far beyond the boundary which separates the red sandstone from 

 the Silurian slates. Near it are Birnam Wood and the newly planted grounds of 

 the Duke of Athol. Seven miles above it, at Logierait, the Tay receives the 

 tribute of the Turamel. The Tay rises to the south-west, at the foot of Ben 

 Lui (3,708 feet), and successively flows through Loch Dochart — to the south of 

 which Ben More (3,818 feet) raises its head — and Loch Tay, by the foot of 

 gloomy Ben Lawers (3,984 feet). The district drained by its upper course is 

 known as Breadalbane, whose lordly owner has a princely seat at Taj^mouth 

 Castle, at the foot of Loch Tay. In one of its wildest recesses are the lead mines 

 of Tyndrum. The Tummel, after having received thje tribute of Lochs Luydan 

 and Errocht, flows through Glen Garroch, purifying its floods in Lochs Pannoch 

 and Tummel, and forms an attractive waterfall before its junction with the Garry. 

 This latter is the principal river of Athol. A short distance above the confluence 

 it forces itself a passage through the famous gorge of Killiecrankie, above which 

 the Highland clans, in 1689, inflicted so severe a defeat upon the royal forces. 

 Blair-AthoJ, at the junction of Glen Tilt with the Upper Glen Garry, rises in the 

 midst of the wildest mountain scenery. Two roads diverge from it : one leads 

 up gloomy Glen Tilt, and past Cairn Gower (3,671 feet) into Aberdeenshire ; the 

 other, accompanied by a railway, continues up Glen Garry, and crosses the Pass of 

 Drumouchter into Inverness-shire. In the great " forest " of Athol 130,000 acres 

 are set apart for grouse and deer- stalking. 



