. The grange of St. Giles, the Bass : and the other baronial homes of the Dick-Lauder family. long-cherishedassociations with the memory ofthose who can never return tosanctify the new scenes resultingfrom the late catastrophe. The character of the sceneryaround Relugas is wild and grandlypicturesque, owing to the boldnessof the lofty rocks below and the luxuriant woods above. The lovely banks of the Divie and the Findhorn are alife-long school of landscape-painting to all lovers of the majestic in Nature. The romantic walks in this beautiful neighbourhood are most minuteljdescribed by Sir Tho
. The grange of St. Giles, the Bass : and the other baronial homes of the Dick-Lauder family. long-cherishedassociations with the memory ofthose who can never return tosanctify the new scenes resultingfrom the late catastrophe. The character of the sceneryaround Relugas is wild and grandlypicturesque, owing to the boldnessof the lofty rocks below and the luxuriant woods above. The lovely banks of the Divie and the Findhorn are alife-long school of landscape-painting to all lovers of the majestic in Nature. The romantic walks in this beautiful neighbourhood are most minuteljdescribed by Sir Thomas in his Scottish Pictinrs^- where he also gives aquaint portrait of the old gardener at Dunphail, Simon Roy, the political aswell as natural historian of the district, who appears to have been a personage From a pencil sketch by Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, lent by his daughter, Miss Cornelia Dick. TLc l\vtf«s Lnude Iublished in Constables Edinburgh Magaz February 1S22, page 2IC 3i8 RELUGAS of no mean size and importance, especially in his Sunday garb. Clad in hislight grey coat, of ample fold, decorated with velvet collar that once was black,and large saucer-shaped buttons that once shone with all the glitter of carvedsteel; his long peeled staff in his right hand, and his left reposing in hisbosom; his thin figure bent forward, and the high features of his pale sparecountenance shaded by his flat bonnet, and wearing a holy air of resignationand piety, as he frequently walked side by side with Sir Thomas on a Sabbathmorning through the winding paths of the glen on their way to the little villagechurch—old Simon holding forth with all the garrulity and freedom of age,telling long stories of the last lairds of the castle, intermixed with endlessharangues on rural economy, bees, blossoms, gooseberries, and caterpillars. The principal points of interest in the immediate vicinity
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