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mended; it had very distinctly spotted leaves and ; battle and rapine—he ad 
ilar award was made ng one | ioe 
and to 
A sim 
purplish flowers 
ver ry distinct ha fl Indian Fer: 
Fltoidea, a 
he course of boiling 
p and destroying he palate, which was at the 
pposite side of t the e riv er, in retaliation of the bishop’s 
halal +} - 
a Duliding 
“Pollow: 
Dii 
+ 
+1 
as of the cliff, dipping 
Nephrodium molle v. polydactylum, a osebi varie ty | ng tithes. ecasionally a with ai ver 
raised by Mr. Sim, by whom ode these were oe d. “Thus, if we are not ing ive in an cohen primy we came to one of ra large dime ension 
t. Sim aaa ed several other Ferns; goa av tety of | castle, we have = satisfaction of ed one fro ‘om ou the head of this stood Jine p Groat 's house. This an 
Dy brine peer scens was . sen nt sb aye Stone. | rooms, which, believe me, far more tabl d by fo our small grassy hillocks, the sole vestiges 
There were sev ss S nias fro x, Squibbs, than the dismal chambers i in i the thick walls, They of th 
gr. to Mrs. Tur Rooksnest, SMi they were | have, moreover, the a tage o “If we may judge by the album kept at the Houna 
not tho ought snficiently Se ae ong florists’ | be haunted. For ot BN e sg as Burns tags have Inn, pilgrims, to this far north point of our island 
flowers a First Class Oar tifica as given to a Pink | said, a ‘gha raist- alluring e edifice and i to roat’s house to bea st i 
called Beau tif, T er, Sloug and | that consideration would tempt ad reales Ae pass ma pages with expressions of disappointment 
Verbena Cruor, and Petunia we ae | og mi night ' hours i in its deserted hall peer general in bad prose and worse ve: Here 
from Mr, G. Smith; “to a Horse-shoe „Pelar wl Æ 
ee» 
rs, Conway, Harl’s Court; to a very oe rose- 
pion Verbena, Grand Eastern, fro m Mes 
ood & Son, Woodbridge; to 
Messrs, Fraser, Lea Bri intense blue, 
ure white centre ; and to ‘Gloxinia La 
from 
r lent lech ne A but it has a garden, dni rool Bore h 
in 
« “But the glory of Brawl 
adjacent grove of real trees, both kik in gem 
teedleds Caithness. ood has been 
in this country sani by the following passage from 
coloured, 
Miln 1e & Co., Vauxhall, 
in 1812 fter noticing the remarkable absence of | ® 
s, ha urubby 
ceolarias, but hey were not considered sufficiently 
t a 
we 
essrs, 
distrib uted. 
Lee, Hammersmith, had two showy Fuchsias, 
Jessie Douglas = Crinoti ine; and some Palstoinieids 
came from Mr. B and Mr. cane. me Roses 
mentioned in i r page were also exhibited. 
Notices of i Mooks. 
Two Months in the Highlands, Oreadia, and Skye. By 
CR. W or 5 ek Longmans. Pp. 404. 
Again have thank ~~ Weld for a most ag 
able summer a ume, to travellers thinking 
A 
the author s ee ‘The only tree that could be 
Singlicrell as extraordinary in Caithness was an As 
in the garden at Brawl Castle, called ‘T 
“«T went i a boat 
To see inal Groat, 
m The place where his house doth lie ; 
But when I got there 
The bill bare, 
And the devil dj 
| The lines have, aaa the me: fectly 
truthfi fal, e hillocks are dechilmnian of a single stone, 
and you “have to draw l ur imagination to 
Ne aw largely on 
believe that any atasak ever stood on “fo spot, 
The author crossed the Pentland Firth, in what reads 
very like a heavy gale :— 
ut I had faith in the steame: 
'he Ladies’ 
med | Tree? It was from 30 to 4 t high, and at nine feet 
from the ground was 8 t in diamet ait was 
blown down by a of wind some o, but 
i Aaii non the imen of Caith 
ber.”] e gar is so remarkable a feature that | 
iti is especially noticed i in bp Sire his ese sta! 
that it is the most ancient and by far the 
en in Cai 
gale yems 
owing to its uncommon ~~ po proprietor alowed Be x 
geou und a 
nd her weather- 
m 
Ho 
asses 
k isles on sea me san 
waves, rolling onward in ever-iner , until 
| in the fulness of their tae and might mea aprang in 
thunder ' tones against the cliffs, belting the rocks with 
| of tl the sea, while the Baty sandstone precipices cleans 
which 
Sonpland for their autumn tour i! prove on 
eir great extent and fruit-bearing 
PE 
aa 
E, ee 
useful, as it is one of the móst pleasant, of gu 
nen ae fruit, 
of Bas ea sce ater 
ASTE 
D aas 
ly 
how well | they ripened. 
ties, and here, in iay latitude of oa 15’, it was 
e hea and | com 
apni th e pro- | i 
ndeed be ill at 
man must in 
mingling nbe personal prer 
5 
+} rae] 
biects 
= scenery an sn information upon s 
_ was i 
en as familia 
piven emeh 
to the 
rs sending long distances for it, 
iliar 
“reader he : and a 
observation clever Ls Nee concealed among Paier gossip. 
as down Tw Sm =. 
ving 
ge > for rap coast 
rok spent some 
of the herring fishery fo: 
s celebrated, aos m Wik ck he pro- 
t 
thstegh August we had Strawberri 
ia GANDAN Tries, 
to | Raspberries, the latter of great siz ze and excellence. 
net He alti tude, and w from Biel ith ‘amber on dj 
TEN 
ay faney to become an inmate 
ooting season, and I assure him $ Remake teat SS. 
of Sandy the gardener, _the garde n produce w. 
as 
n pose is frequently 
s0 a associate 
he word ‘cas tle? that when ‘wel 
an abortion pearing an im- 
ch name, ‘we are at once disappointed and dis- 
len is a frie 
ita, 
watch them ; er 
although they fed phon ane daily on our fruit, we 
did not Aa the toll that kah poe from us. 
_, After to Thurso “Strath 
ding the 
| ape of at Kader € biais, who 
was al 
<p a 
1: 
y friends ; and as | cradl 
gst demand throught H a country, | heavi 
d by Wordswo 
td b 
li nte i 
eaving ocean, thought when she went to Scot 
nothing was so dead and lifeless a: pen 
woods. Scott tells the roe rendered mo 
rth, who w. 
fo: 
swayed | to and fro, and the branchés tossed Pan 
Ind so disappointed 
‘she went ren 
was the young lady, that Scett adds, 
a (and I mr nothing will ever tempt her from 
| wind-swept Oreades again. 
= 
- Tetra man 
s in ense any one of e kepah The most remarkable of these 
“Now it i is pi bounden duty 
© toll th feb Sg oe 
Al SHER p + 
belt tne read 
vod 
the traveller | to Soeur H 
s Ta or Dun ouse, “* pa 
robin, nor ari of any cored e just itled to desert: ae ates “th cou 
the rank of castle, Great things ware s evidently i = “Bar s indeed, in many scape gaosia án the | little steamer was maratar that ving on on 
tended, for there are thick basement walls i feet | desert; pse while the nace proi iapa a | became extremely difficult, _ While deep moans 
long, divided into six vanlts, and rahi with loop- state of natu: ure, Sir John Sinclair has ly a kind of 
holes ; but the s supers rstructur re is simply a a square and clai med but made many ds of piik e: y those in the Rs w'li yer omg But: 
] around — smile with plenty and' erity. | uneasy thts of things did not last long. Rounding 
~ Se by having pepper-box turrets fastened to each Lakes and swamps have been p ae tid ve Hoy He med i c 1 dividing Hoy 
corner, trees planted, extensive far ildings erected, and a| from Pomona, and ‘skirting ‘the sweet green isle:of 
3 y the: er the Brawl a i you will ask, that daj powerful steam-engine is to doas much agricul- | Græmsay, em into the — and almost 
history of d, and where, ‘aecordin, tural work as le. locked Bay Stromness, — A flee tof small brigs and 
ý Seaton, the proud Harolds and erry Guinan. * Nowher will you have a better opportunity of'| schoone , and numerous’ boats 
Of the “Stage earls, kept high st ate ? No t at all. seeing how sei entific agric ai yiia may be made to} painte ed Ii ght t green were moore d off Stro og 
Permit m be your À cicerone, and I will show you the triumph over pore ot eo es cal here. | Nor After ok up tee striking geologieal featutes of 
ibe peat behind the modern structure a | should it be forgotten that, while the neighbourhood, Mr. Weld -proeeeded to Kirkwall, 
the Brawl Castle of old. It is Mation. | of S 
emains is grand and massive ; 
a within which are small rooms, 
10 to 6 feet 
these 
TAR ladies 
pice by 
me castle, ani 
ae 
rtal 
cae rip erinoline ; 
Darr indows; in shat, p “good old 
Bae with a fosse and. er means 
at a glance how idea it has 
| Look at the old Caithness hovel, a mere mud structure 
with often only two openings; bio den md a uhain 
| the ron to alian the emake to 
sch we. i 
which, baified in its ‘attemp 
ie roof, was rolling in dense 
interior. 
centre 
irn octane MMT AE of the 
ject hat 
poiled. “Origini it op aah ar 
y m 
Tittle 
ated workmanship, and 
aes in a- eo Sinnett, was 
hashari armer, 
es | w. 
Sar = 
Scandinavian origin, a foreign-looking town, with 
comet ands sees Be done act Auahizesa; » biel y “ith leaves; 
At sae t of the barr: 
hich we 
iting Skye, a 
| Sat noih taina t 
ree at yore ay 
She’ was bp a noseless 
the heap of © rei aon ashes. „Two mia Hand aprig 
in the w: x con ry oe Hear : 
and a two chairs rect A aot or Sead 
with soot and smoke, comple’ e en 
aan i T will doubth bcs Sanity that a ‘ put aside Te wee 
feet i reign frogeroe ach wo pita was as at the brilliant pages, and follow in’ his track saa Ba —_ ifor 
at a nei clear heads and vi ieee 
dinong| ine ar our Yi vist ace Sond nine months’ London campaign. 
hamlet, and the aji wl ns prerie in the condition 
Get he bai inherited it from his fathe 
“Jt was July—-the July of 1859, and the fierce mid- 
