Chapter I: Front Matter

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CONTENTS.

THE HIGHLAND DEE.--_By FRANCIS WATT._
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The Source: Larig and Garchary Burns--In the Heart of the
Cairngorm Mountains--Ben Macdhui and Braeriach--"A Fery Fulgar
Place"--A Highland Legend--The Linn of Dee--Byron's Narrow
Escape--The Floods of 1829--Lochnagar and Mary Duff--Influence
of the Dee on Byron--Braemar and the Rising of '15--Corriemulzie
and its Linn--Balmoral--The "Birks" of Abergeldie--Their
Transplantation by Burns--What is Collimankie?--Ballater: the
Slaying of "Brave Brackley"--Craigendarroch--The Reel of Tullich
and the Origin Thereof--The Legend of St. Nathdan--Mythological
Parallels--The Muich--Morven: the Centre of Highland Song and
Legend--Birse--Lunphanan Wood--The Battle of Corrichie--Queen Mary
and Sir John Gordon--At Aberdeen 1

THE TAY.--_By JOHN GEDDIE._

The Tiber and the Tay--History and Legend--Perthshire and the
Tay--The Moor of Rannoch--Blair--Pitlochrie--Killin--Kenmore--The
Lyon--The "Rock of Weem"--The "Birks" of Aberfeldy--Dunkeld
and Birnam--Invertuthil--The Loch of Clunie--The
Isla--Strathmore--Dunsinane Hill--Scone and the
Ruthvens--Perth--The Views from Moncrieffe and Kinnoull--Strathearn
and the Carse of Gowrie--Dundee--The Tay Bridge, New and Old--View
from the "Law"--"Men of Blood" and Men of Business 17

THE FORTH.--_By JOHN GEDDIE._

Comparative--Poetry, Romance, and History--Loch Ard
and Flora McIvor--The "Clachan of Aberfoyle"--Lake of
Menteith--The Trossachs and Loch Katrine--Ellen and
Helen--Loch Achray--Ben Ledi--The View from Stirling
Castle--Stirling Town--Bannockburn--The Ochils and the Devon
Valley--Alloa--Clackmannan--Kincardine-on-Forth--Tulliallan
Castle--Culross: Abbey and Burgh--The "Standard
Stone"--Torryburn--Rosyth Castle--"St. Margaret's
Hope"--Dunfermline: Tower, Palace, and Abbey--The New Forth
Bridge--Inch Garvie and its Castle--Inverkeithing Bay--Donibristle
House--Aberdour--Inchcolm, Cramond, Inchkeith, and May Islands--The
Bass Rock--Kirkcaldy Bay--Edinburgh--Leith--Seton--Aberlady--Round
to North Berwick--Tantallon Castle 41

THE TWEED.--_By W. W. HUTCHINGS._

CHAPTER I.--FROM BERWICK TO KELSO.--Leading Characteristics--The
View from Berwick--Lindisfarne--The History and Present State of
Berwick--Norham Castle and Marmion--Ladykirk--Tillmouth--Twisell
Castle and Bridge--Ford Castle and Flodden--Coldstream--Wark
Castle--Hadden Rig 72

CHAPTER II.--FROM KELSO TO TWEEDSWELL.--Kelso and
its Abbey--Roxburghe Castle--Floors Castle--The
Teviot--Ancrum--Carlenrig--The Ale--The Jed and
Jedburgh--Mertoun--Smailholm Tower and Sandyknowe--Eildon
and Sir Michael Scott--Dryburgh--The Leader and Thomas
the Rhymer--Melrose--Skirmish Hill--Abbotsford--The
Ettrick and the Yarrow--Ashestiel--Innerleithen--Horsburgh
Castle--Peebles--Neidpath--Manor--Drummelzier--The Crook
Inn--Tweedswell 90

THE COQUET.--_By AARON WATSON._

The Fisherman's River--"Awa' to the
Border"--Peat-Hags--Eel-Fishing--Alwinton and Harbottle--The
Village of Rothbury--Brinkburn Priory--Weldon Bridge and
Felton--Warkworth Hermitage and Castle--The Town of Amble--Coquet
Isle 113

THE TYNE.--_By AARON WATSON._

CHAPTER I.--THE NORTH TYNE.--Peel Fell--Deadwater Bog--Keilder
Castle and the Keilder Moors--The Border Peel--Border Feuds and
Friendships--The Charltons--Bellingham--The Reed--Tyne Salmon--The
Village of Wark--Chipchase Castle--Haughton Castle and the
Swinburnes--Chollerford and the Roman Wall--The Meeting of the
Waters 129

CHAPTER II.--THE SOUTH TYNE.--On the "Fiend's Fell"--Tyne
Springs--Garrigill--Alston and the Moors--Knaresdale Hall--The
Ridleys--Haltwhistle--Allendale--Haydon Bridge and John Martin--The
Arthurian Legends 143

CHAPTER III.--FROM HEXHAM TO NEWCASTLE.--Hexham and the Abbey
Church--Dilston Hall--The Derwentwater Rising--Corbridge--Bywell
Woods--Prudhoe and Ovingham--Stephenson's Birthplace--Ryton and
Newburn--The Approach to Newcastle 150