. Scottish gardens; being a representative selection of different types, old and new . , and causing it to be drawnon rollers across the isthmus to Loch Fyne, with hisown hand on the tiller. Three hundred years later,Robert the Bruce repeated the feat, in token of hislordship of the Isles, and built a keep at the easternend of the portage, which still presides, grim andtime-worn, over the snug little town of Tarbert, withits tortuous, but profound, harbour. These incidentsare commemorated in the name of the place, Tarbertsignifying boat draft or portage, from the Gaelictaruinn hada. North of t
. Scottish gardens; being a representative selection of different types, old and new . , and causing it to be drawnon rollers across the isthmus to Loch Fyne, with hisown hand on the tiller. Three hundred years later,Robert the Bruce repeated the feat, in token of hislordship of the Isles, and built a keep at the easternend of the portage, which still presides, grim andtime-worn, over the snug little town of Tarbert, withits tortuous, but profound, harbour. These incidentsare commemorated in the name of the place, Tarbertsignifying boat draft or portage, from the Gaelictaruinn hada. North of the isthmus lies the district of Knapdale,near the southern extremity of which is Mr. GeorgeCampbells fine demesne of Stonefield, facing the bluewaters of Loch Fyne on the east and sheltered fromprevailing winds by high ground on the south-westand north-west. To enumerate half the rare formsof vegetation which thrive among the ample woodlandof Stonefield would fill a very long chapter. Readerswill kindly be content with the bare notes of a visitpaid to these grounds in mid-April. 70.
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