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Title: Tours in Scotland 1747, 1750, 1760
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Pococke, Richard, 1704-1765 Kemp, Daniel William, 1844-
Subjects: Scotland -- Description and travel
Publisher: Edinburgh : Printed at the University Press by T. and A. Constable for the Scottish History Society
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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icleLismore, Old Stat. Ac, vol. xxi. )i. 426.—See Proc. Roy. P/iy. Soc, vol. ii.p. 112. - Pyrits Aria, Ehrh., White Beam. Scrims sylvestris, Aria Theophraslidicta. The wild Service, called Aria.—V?i\Vm.%on\ Herbal (^Theatrum Botani-cum), London, 1640, p. 1421. Dunstaffnage Castle. For particular )ilans and views of the castle andchapel, see Castellated Arch, of Scot., 1887, by MacGibhon and Ross, vol. i.85-93- The legendary history ajipears to have been gathered from Camdenand Buchanan. The description corresponds very closely with that given by Mr.Pennant (Tour 1772, pt. i. p. 409), who was also entertained twelve years afterDr. Pococke by the same proprietor. Pjoth travellers deemed the figure ofivory worthy of drawings, doubtless after l)eing duly impressed with its supposedantiquity and object—that of commemorating the conjnation chair of Scotland,or as a memorial of a particular coronation. There can be little douljt that itwas simply a chessman. See p. 75. DUNSTAFFNAGE. 73
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/ 74 TOUR THROUGH SCOTLAND, 1760. round within. The wav to this Castle is bv a Drawbridtre, andthe appartnients were to tlie Soutli. It belongs to a Canipl)ell,whose family has enjoyed it for many years. He showed us avery curious piece of Antiquity found not a great many yearsagoe in the Castle ; It is a figure of Ivory sitting in a Chair assu))posed of a King of Scotland, about four Inches and a halflong with a Crown on the Head and a beard, the robes hangrather clumsily ; a drawing of the figure and chair are on theother side ; what is very particular his hands are laid on hisKnees, as in the statue of Memnon,^ and as the Grand Signiorsits at this day when any one goes to Audience. The traditionis tliat this Castle was built by King Ewin 100 years beforeChrist. A view of it is here seen (see p. 73). They have ared stone here whicli seems to have iron in it. To the south of the Castle is the Cha))el in which thev savmany of tlie Kings of Scotland are buried in a vault, therebeing no

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