. Scottish pictures, drawn with pen and pencil . theold-world air of the place, which no amount of modernisation has been able i6o SCOTTISH PICTURES. to overcome. On some of the old houses are curious inscriptions. Oneruns thus: SaV . NA . MAIR . ON . ME . THAN . YOU . VALD . I . SAID . ON . YE. Inland, the town of Turriff is also interesting from its inscriptions. One,at Forglen House, runs thus : do veil and doopt nociitAlthocii tiiov be spyit ; He IS LVTIL GVID VORTH That is nociit tiiov no tentQvHAT eyerie man tels ;Gyve tiiov vald leive ondemitGanc qviiair na man dvels. These,
. Scottish pictures, drawn with pen and pencil . theold-world air of the place, which no amount of modernisation has been able i6o SCOTTISH PICTURES. to overcome. On some of the old houses are curious inscriptions. Oneruns thus: SaV . NA . MAIR . ON . ME . THAN . YOU . VALD . I . SAID . ON . YE. Inland, the town of Turriff is also interesting from its inscriptions. One,at Forglen House, runs thus : do veil and doopt nociitAlthocii tiiov be spyit ; He IS LVTIL GVID VORTH That is nociit tiiov no tentQvHAT eyerie man tels ;Gyve tiiov vald leive ondemitGanc qviiair na man dvels. These, it is said, were favourite lines with Sir Walter Scott. But we must close our peregrinations in this interesting district. Thefisher-folk all round the coast to Aberdeen are a fine stalwart race, simple,courteous, unspoiled; and although this part of the country is hut littletraversed by tourists, it will be acknowledged by all who have madeacquaintance with it, to contain much that is best and most characteristicin the homely life of Scotch 11siikk-I<) THE EASTERN COAST AND DEESIDE. M Ill ll ^ lit*
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