A topographical dictionary of Scotland, comprising the several counties, islands, cities, burgh and market towns, parishes, and principal villages, with historical and statistical descriptions: embellished with engravings of the seals and arms of the different burghs and universities . fendedby a drawbridge: till the middle of the sixteenth cen-tury, it was the residence of Duncan Campbell, of Glen-lyon, who was equally renowned for his valour and hishospitality. On the lands of Inverchadain are the re-mains of a mound of turf and stones, called Sheomar-na-Staing, where Wallace, on his route f
A topographical dictionary of Scotland, comprising the several counties, islands, cities, burgh and market towns, parishes, and principal villages, with historical and statistical descriptions: embellished with engravings of the seals and arms of the different burghs and universities . fendedby a drawbridge: till the middle of the sixteenth cen-tury, it was the residence of Duncan Campbell, of Glen-lyon, who was equally renowned for his valour and hishospitality. On the lands of Inverchadain are the re-mains of a mound of turf and stones, called Sheomar-na-Staing, where Wallace, on his route from Argyll,remained for several days, attended by a few faithfuladherents, and where he was joined by the men of Ran-noch, who marched with his forces to the battles ofDunkeld and Perth. In the churchyard of Fortingal Isa very ancient yew-tree of remarkable growth, whosetrunk is divided into two stems, between which is nowan interval of some yards : it appears like two distincttrees. Major-General David Stewart of Garth, authorof Sketches of the Highlands and of the Highland Regi-ments, was a native and a landed proprietor of the parishof Fortingal: he died in St. Lucia, in the West Indies,in IS29, holding the office of governor of that island.—See Rannoch, &;c. FORT FOSS. Burgh Ross, and the seat of FORTROSE, or Cha-NONRY, a royal burgh, anda quoad sacra district, inthe parish of Rosemarkie,county of Ross and Cro-marty, lO^ miles (N. N. E.)from Inverness, and 8 (S. ) from Cromarty; con-taining, with the burgh ofRosemarkie, 1082 inhabit-ants, of whom nearly one-half are in that burgh. Thisplace, anciently theChanonrythat diocese, was united bycharter of James II., in , with the town of Rose-markie, which had been erected into a royal burgh byAlexander II., and which is distant from it about half amile to the east. The united burghs, under the commonname of Fortrose, received a confirmation of all ancientprivileges from James VI., in ISQ^ ; and by charter ofth
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