Black's picturesque tourist of Scotland . cite a sigh in those that view themover the miseries of civil war. + About two miles above Dollar is an interesting spot where the Devon * Oh, Alva woods are boniiie,Tillicoultry liiUs are fair,But wlien I think o the bonnie braes o Menstrie,It maks my heart aye sair.—Fairy village of .Menstrie lies two niQes west of Alva. Menstrie House was tlie seatof the Earl of Stirling. t The aueient name of the castle, it is often said, was the Castle of Gloom. Themountain streams that flow on the different sides are still called, the one the Waterof Ca
Black's picturesque tourist of Scotland . cite a sigh in those that view themover the miseries of civil war. + About two miles above Dollar is an interesting spot where the Devon * Oh, Alva woods are boniiie,Tillicoultry liiUs are fair,But wlien I think o the bonnie braes o Menstrie,It maks my heart aye sair.—Fairy village of .Menstrie lies two niQes west of Alva. Menstrie House was tlie seatof the Earl of Stirling. t The aueient name of the castle, it is often said, was the Castle of Gloom. Themountain streams that flow on the different sides are still called, the one the Waterof Care, tlie other the Burn of Sorrow; and, after the jiinetiou in front of the castle,they traverse the valley of Dollar, or Dolour. The proper etymologists, however, tella different tale. Tlie old Gaelic name of the stronghold was Cock , or MadLeap. The glen of Caj-e, was the glen of Caer or castle, a British word; and Dollaris simply Dalor, the high field.—Cuambkkss Gazetteer, voh i. Tales of a Grandfather, vol. iii. p. \ RU3IBLING BRIDGE DEVILS MILL. 191 forms a series of cascades, one of which is called the Cauldron Linn.* Theriver here suddenly enters a deep gulf, where, finding itself confined, ithas, by continual eflorts against the sides, worked out a ca-vaty resemblinga large cauldi-on. From this gulf the water works its way through anaperture beneath the surface into a lower cavity, where it is covered witha constant foam. The water then works its way into a third caiddron, outof which it is precipitated by a sheer fall of forty-lour feet. The bestview of this magnificent scene is from the bottom of the fall. About a mile farther up the vale, the rocks on each side rise to theheight of eighty-six feet, and the banks of the stream are contracted insuch a manner, that a bridge of twenty-five feet span connects them. Ahandsome new bridge has lately been erected above the old one, from thebed of the stream a hundred and twenty feet. On account of the rockyn
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