"Yet a black and murky battlement
Lay resting on the hill."
"The Execution of Montrose."—Aytoun.
FROM "LAYS OF THE SCOTTISH CAVALIERS."
By Sir J. Noel Paton, P.R.S.A.
By permission of Messrs. William Blackwood & Sons.
On returning parcels of touched proofs, he wrote the following letters:
"33 George Street, Edinburgh,
August 22, 1862.