. The chiefs of Grant. Memoirs (Correspondence. - Charters.) [With plates, including portraits and facsimiles, and genealogical tables.] . t, Castle Grant hasbeen cherished and venerated not only by the members of the family, butby all the name of Grant, as the home of their chief. The castle itself isan imposing pile, reared on one of the most commanding positions in Strath-spey. Its outlook is at once varied, extensive, and magnificent, over acountry which, for many miles around, owns its baronial sway. A writerof the eighteenth century, describing the view, says :— The house commands a pret
. The chiefs of Grant. Memoirs (Correspondence. - Charters.) [With plates, including portraits and facsimiles, and genealogical tables.] . t, Castle Grant hasbeen cherished and venerated not only by the members of the family, butby all the name of Grant, as the home of their chief. The castle itself isan imposing pile, reared on one of the most commanding positions in Strath-spey. Its outlook is at once varied, extensive, and magnificent, over acountry which, for many miles around, owns its baronial sway. A writerof the eighteenth century, describing the view, says :— The house commands a pretty extensive and pleasing , the deep forest of Abernethy, its broad dark green plainencroaching on the dusky side of the lofty Cairngorm, the pale rollingcloud seizing at times its summit, equalling its peerless elevation with thehumbler hills, and the mountain anon discharging the hovering vapour inlingeiing detachments, resumes its proud pre-eminence, and looks downupon its neighbours. Spread eastward lies the wide-bending cultivated 1 It is also sometimes spelt Balloch Castle, that is, the castle in the < O < NOW CASTLE GRANT. xh plain of Cromdale, its green level border illuminated by the blue rollingriver. On the north and west an irregularly curved range of hill displaysupon its side the verdant mantle of flourishing plantation. The parkitself is of great extent, diversified with the agreeable variety of thicket,grove and forest, cornfield and meadow ; a double line of tall trees extenda cool shade over a long lane, by the lofty canopy of their intermingledfoliage, impervious to the summer sun and the slighter shower ; the trimgarden, the ornamented shrubbery, and several pleasant ridings, may sug-gest a general idea of the environs of this respectable mansion, the extentof which may be conceived by the compass occupied by the wood, nearlyfour thousand acres. 1 The fabric of the castle is of various dates, one portion, called BabiesTower,
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