. More famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . mebodyshould have been prompted by this monument of military geniusto inscribe one to the discipline of Augustus, whether Hadrianor Severus were meant. That particular stone, by the way, withmany from this station, and a spirited sporting sketch graved bysome wee Roman laddie, are to be seen—under restrictions—atthe Chesters camp near Chollerford ; but it is a tedious place toget to and away from, and the museum might happen to beclosed. Fortunately you can always fall back upon the Tullie HouseMuseum at Carlisle, serving all purposes an
. More famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . mebodyshould have been prompted by this monument of military geniusto inscribe one to the discipline of Augustus, whether Hadrianor Severus were meant. That particular stone, by the way, withmany from this station, and a spirited sporting sketch graved bysome wee Roman laddie, are to be seen—under restrictions—atthe Chesters camp near Chollerford ; but it is a tedious place toget to and away from, and the museum might happen to beclosed. Fortunately you can always fall back upon the Tullie HouseMuseum at Carlisle, serving all purposes and imposing no restric-tions. There, any weekday, may be inspected, besides otherevidences of Roman civilisation, a variety of those statues andaltars with inscriptions in boldest capitals, which the centurionsand decurions could get cut with such skill and taste, at a timewhen the wild men of Pictland and Caledon could not scratchtheir own names, and satisfied all their aspirations towards artin bedizening their persons with woad. Unverara\> 307. INVERARAY CASTLE INVERARAY BY A. H. MALAN PERSONALLY REVISED BY HIS GRACE, THE DUKE OF ARGYLE, THE capital of Argyllshire may be said to owe its being tothe House of Lochow. Before the land knew the nameof Campbell, a few huts there may have been at theArays mouth, to leeward of the point where now the Lord of theIsles touches daily in summer; but all the importance of theplace is due to those chiefs, of the race of Diarmaid, who havebeen successively known as MacCailean (not MacCallum) Mhorsince the great Colin was knighted by Alexander 111., knight died fighting against Macdougal of Lome, 1204 ; andhis son Nigel, for prowess at Bannockburn, was given LadyMary, sister of Robert Bruce, to wife. But there were great men before Agamemnon ; and the clan 309 iIO Inveraray is said to go back to Archibald Cambel, who acquired the lord-ship of Lochawe by marriage (1067) with Eva, daughter and co-heiress of Paul Oduin, pur
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