Note

THE author does not attempt elaborate word-pictures, that would seem pale beside the artist’s colouring. His design has been, as accompaniment to these beautiful landscapes, an outline of Scotland’s salient features, with glimpses at its history, national character, and customs, and at the literature that illustrates this country for the English-speaking world. While taking the reader on a fireside tour through the varying “airts” of his native land, he has tried to show how its life, silken or homespun, is a tartan of more intricate pattern than appears in certain crude impressions struck off by strangers. And into his own web have been woven reminiscences, anecdotes, and borrowed brocade such as may make entertaining stripes and checks upon a groundwork of information. The mainland only is dealt with in this volume, which it is intended to follow up with another on the Highlands and Islands.

Contents

[CHAPTER I]
PAGE
The Borders[1]
[CHAPTER II]
Auld Reekie[23]
[CHAPTER III]
The Trossachs Round[45]
[CHAPTER IV]
The Kingdom of Fife[69]
[CHAPTER V]
The Fair City[90]
[CHAPTER VI]
The Highland Line[111]
[CHAPTER VII]
“Aberdeen Awa’!”[136]
[CHAPTER VIII]
To John o’ Groat’s House[157]
[CHAPTER IX]
The Great Glen[177]
[CHAPTER X]
Glasgow and the Clyde[197]
[CHAPTER XI]
The Whig Country[215]
[CHAPTER XII]
Galloway[244]

List of Illustrations

[1.]Beneath the Crags of Ben Venue, Perthshire[Frontispiece]
FACING PAGE
[2.]Tantallon Castle, on Coast of Haddingtonshire[2]
[3.]The Bass Rock, Firth of Forth, off Coast of Haddingtonshire[4]
[4.]Neidpath Castle, Peeblesshire[8]
[5.]Abbotsford, Roxburghshire[12]
[6.]Melrose, Roxburghshire[16]
[7.]Scott’s favourite View from Bemerside Hill, Roxburghshire[20]
[8.]Edinburgh from “Rest and be Thankful”[24]
[9.]Edinburgh from Salisbury Crags—Evening[28]
[10.]Craigmillar Castle, near Edinburgh[32]
[11.]Linlithgow Palace[36]
[12.]The Bass Rock—A Tranquil Evening[38]
[13.]Loch Achray, the Trossachs, Perthshire[42]
[14.]Stirling Castle from the King’s Knot[46]
[15.]The Outflow of Loch Katrine, Perthshire[48]
[16.]In the Heart of the Trossachs, Perthshire[50]
[17.]Brig o’ Turk and Ben Venue, Perthshire[52]
[18.]Birches by Loch Achray, Perthshire[54]
[19.]Head of Loch Lomond, looking up Glen Falloch, Perthshire[56]
[20.]Golden Autumn, the Trossachs, Perthshire[58]
[21.]The River Teith, with Lochs Achray and Vennachar, Perthshire[60]
[22.]Veiled Sunshine, the Trossachs, Perthshire[62]
[23.]Near Ardlui, Loch Lomond, Dumbartonshire[64]
[24.]The Silver Strand, Loch Katrine, Perthshire[66]
[25.]Loch Achray and Ben Venue, Perthshire[68]
[26.]The Castle of St. Andrews, Fifeshire[70]
[27.]Loch Lubnaig, Perthshire[76]
[28.]In Glenfinlas, Perthshire[80]
[29.]On the Dochart, Killin, Perthshire[84]
[30.]Perth from the Slopes of Kinnoul Hill[90]
[31.]Ben A’an, corner of Loch Katrine, Perthshire[94]
[32.]Loch Vennachar, Perthshire[98]
[33.]A Croft near Dalmally, Argyllshire[102]
[34.]Wet Harvest Time near Dalmally, Argyllshire[106]
[35.]The Grampians from Boat of Garten, Inverness-shire[112]
[36.]Killin, Perthshire[114]
[37.]A Moor near Killin, Perthshire[116]
[38.]In Glenfinlas, Perthshire[118]
[39.]Looking up Glen Lochay near Killin, Perthshire[120]
[40.]Beneath the Slopes of Ben Ledi, near Callander, Perthshire[122]
[41.]A Wild Spot, Killin, Perthshire[124]
[42.]The Falls of Tummel, Perthshire[126]
[43.]Dunkeld and Birnam from Craigiebarns, Perthshire[128]
[44.]A Wooded Gorge, Killin, Perthshire[130]
[45.]Looking up the Pass of Killiecrankie, Perthshire[132]
[46.]Killin, Head of Loch Tay, Perthshire[134]
[47.]Dunnottar Castle, Kincardineshire[136]
[48.]Old Mar Bridge and Lochnagar, Aberdeenshire[140]
[49.]Balmoral, Aberdeenshire[144]
[50.]Strath Glass, Inverness-shire[148]
[51.]A Peep of the Grampians, Inverness-shire[152]
[52.]The River Glass near Beauly, Inverness-shire[158]
[53.]Moor of Rannoch, Perthshire and Argyllshire[162]
[54.]The Isles of Loch Maree, Ross-shire[166]
[55.] Moor and Mountain, Ross-shire[170]
[56.] Crags near Poolewe, Ross-shire[174]
[57.]Inverness from near the Islands[178]
[58.]Tomdoun, Glen Garry, Inverness-shire[182]
[59.]A Shepherd’s Cot in Glen Nevis, Inverness-shire[186]
[60.] River Awe flowing to Loch Etive, Argyllshire[190]
[61.]A Croft near Taynuilt, Loch Etive, Argyllshire[194]
[62.]Glencoe, Argyllshire[198]
[63.]Garelochhead, Dumbartonshire[202]
[64.]Glen Sannox, Isle of Arran[206]
[65.]Loch Triochatan, Entrance to Glencoe, Argyllshire[210]
[66.] Glen Rosa, Isle of Arran[214]
[67.]The Falls of the Clyde, Lanarkshire[216]
[68.]A Highland View[220]
[69.] Kilchurn Castle, Loch Awe, Argyllshire[226]
[70.] River Coe, Glencoe, Argyllshire[230]
[71.] Ben Cruachan from Inverlochy, Argyllshire[234]
[72.]The Morven Hills from Appin, Argyllshire[238]
[73.]A Croft near Loch Etive, Argyllshire[242]
[74.]A Birch-Wood in Springtime, by Loch Maree, Ross-shire[246]
[75.] On the River Ayr, Ayrshire[250]