Travels in Scotland by an unusual route Author:James Hall 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: and consequently to form a stronger fence and more durable than if built with the strongest cement. Some of the stones of this country evidently contain iron and... more » ores of various kinds, and consequently by being put between fires, might easily be made to run together, and thus form a fence of stones run together, and capable of continuing in that state for thousands of years. A few miles from Huntley I passed a rill, scarcely a foot deep, that conveys water to drive a mill. A cat, sunning herself, and purring one day by the side of this rill, seeing a salmon in it, leaped on its back; butjiot being able to pull it out, she continued crying in an uncommonly curious manner, and held it till a person ran to her assistance. The salmon, which weighed eight pounds, must have lost its way, being more than two miles from the water of Bogie, and thirty from the sea. KILDRUMMIE CASTLE. Between the rivers Dee and the Spey, at the foot of the Grampian Hills in Bra/mar, is situate Kildrum- nu'e Castle, an old and extensive ruin, once the seat of the earl of Mar. It was in Kildrummie Castle, then deemed impregnable, that the heroic and great king Robert Bruce lodged his family, while he himself, with about two hundred followers, fled for safety after the unfortunate battle ofMethven, near Perth, to the lakes and recesses of the Grampian mountains and the Western Islands. It is situated on a rising ground -projecting into a deep glen. OF 7 Hi ( tALV'sV-;!-. vIt is of a pentagonal form, the angles defended by very strong and lofty towers, one cf which is still fifty yards high. The court enclosed within this massy pentagon takes up an acre of ground. Besides the impression made by the vast extent of the ruins, I was much struck with an arched way under ground more than a mile, by...« less