Glenochel a Descriptive Poem Author:James Kennedy, Marcus Tullius Cicero Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: leveled and defaced; but, on the north and west sides, there still exist three rows of ditches, and as many ramparts of earth and stone. The total circumference ... more »of it is a- bout 2020 feet. On the north side, towards the Loch, there is a round turret, analogous to those at the Roman camp on Burnswark hill . " The Horestii inhabited the country betwixt the Bodotria, or Forth, on the south, and the Tavus, or Tay, on the north; a district which comprehends the shires of Clackmannan, Kinross, and Fife, with the east part of Strathern, and the country lying eastward of the Tay, as far as the river Brand." Caledonia, Vol. I. p. 62. See also Whitaker's Hist. of Manchester, 8vo. Ed. Vol. II. p. 201, 202; and Cambrian Register, Vol. II. p. 17, 18. " On Benarty hill, which stretches from east to west, three miles, the Horestii had Chambejs'Caledonia, Vol. I. p. 110. 168. Gordon's Itinerary, p. 36. Stat. Acct. Vol. VII. p. 115. a great strength, which was fortified by double ramparts and ditches." Sibbald's Roman. Antiquities, p. 37. " Agricola st out from the fortified isthmus" between the Forth and Clyde " in the summer of A. D. 83, on his expedition beyond the Forth. He was-, no doubt, induced, by the previous knowledge of his naval commander to the most commodious passage of a frith, the shores of which are, in some places, near the isthmus, very marshy, and, in others, very steep. And, turning to the right, he was probably directed by his purpose, by the minute information of his naval officers, and by the nature of the country, to the narrowest strait of the Forth, at Inch- garvey, where the frith is greatty contracted by the projecting points of the opposite shores. He was here, no doubt, met by a part of his fleet, which would speedily waft him over this contract...« less