Earlier Visits to Scotland.

DatePage
First Visit to Scotland29 Aug. 1842[1]
Visit to Blair Athole9 Sept. 1844 [29]
Tour round the West Coast of Scotland and Visit to Ardverikie 11 Aug. 1847 [43]
Life in the Highlands, 1848-1861.
First Impressions of Balmoral 8 Sept. 1848 [65]
First Ascent of Loch-na-Gar 16 Sept. 1848 [67]
A “Drive” in the Balloch Buie 18 Sept. 1848 [71]
The First Stay at Alt-na-Giuthasach 30 Aug. 1849 [73]
A Beat in the Abergeldie Woods 3 Sept. 1849 [76]
Visit to the Dhu Loch, &c. 11 Sept. 1849 [78]
Ascent of Ben-na-Bhourd 6 Sept. 1850 [81]
The Gathering 12 Sept. 1850 [83]
Salmon Leistering 13 Sept. 1850 [85]
Loch Muich 16 Sept. 1850 [87]
Torch-light Ball at Corriemulzie 10 Sept. 1852 [89]
Account of the News of the Duke of Wellington’s Death 16 Sept. 1852 [91]
Building the Cairn on Craig Gowan, &c. 11 Oct. 1852 [95]
Laying the Foundation Stone of our New House 28 Sept. 1853 [99]
The Kirk 29 Oct. 1854 [102]
Arrival at the New Castle at Balmoral 7 Sept. 1855 [103]
Impressions of the New Castle 8 Sept. 1855 [104]
News of the Fall of Sevastopol 10 Sept. 1855 [105]
The Betrothal of the Princess Royal 29 Sept. 1855 [107]
The Kirk 14 Oct. 1855 [108]
Finding the Old Castle Gone 30 Aug. 1856 [109]
Gardens, &c. round the New Castle 31 Aug. 1856 [110]
Love for Balmoral 13 Oct. 1856 [111]
Opening of the New Bridge over the Linn of Dee 8 Sept. 1857 [112]
Visits to the Old Women 26 Sept. 1857 [113]
Visit to the Prince’s Encampment at Feithort 6 Oct. 1857 [115]
A Fall of Snow 18 Sept. 1858 [117]
Ascent of Morven 14 Sept. 1859 [121]
The Prince’s Return from Aberdeen 15 Sept. 1859 [123]
Fête to the Members of the British Association 22 Sept. 1859 [124]
Expedition to Inchrory 30 Sept. 1859 [127]
Ascent of Ben Muich Dhui 7 Oct. 1859 [130]
First Great Expedition:— To Glen Fishie and Grantown 4 Sept. 1860 [134]
Second Great Expedition:— To Invermark and Fettercairn 20 Sept. 1861 [144]
Expedition to Loch Avon 28 Sept. 1861 [153]
Third Great Expedition:—To Glen Fishie, Dalwhinnie, and Blair Athole 8 Oct. 1861 [156]
Last Expedition 16 Oct. 1861 [167]
Tours in England and Ireland, and YachtingExcursions.
First Visit to Ireland 2 Aug. 1849 [175]
Yachting Excursion 20 Aug. 1846 [195]
Second Yachting Excursion 2 Sept. 1846 [203]
Visit to the Lakes of Killarney 27 Aug. 1861 [216]
Directions to the Binder.
Balmoral [ FRONTISPIECE.]
Balmoral—The old Castle TO FACE PAGE[65]
The Shiel of Alt-na-Giuthasach [73]
Balmoral Castle from the North-West[111]
Fording the Poll Tarf [164]
Luncheon at Cairn Lochan [169]

EARLIER VISITS TO SCOTLAND.

First Visit to Scotland.


On Board the Royal George Yacht,

Monday, August 29, 1842.

At five o’clock in the morning we left Windsor for the railroad, the Duchess of Norfolk, Miss Matilda Paget, General Wemyss, Colonel Bouverie, and Mr. Anson following us. Lord Liverpool, Lord Morton, and Sir James Clark, who also accompany us, had already gone on to Woolwich.