. The earth and its inhabitants .. . his den, while the fowls roost by the side of the humaninhabitants, or perch near the hole left for the escape of the smoke. To strangers * Hugh Miller, Sutherland as it Was and Is. t In 1877 2,060 shooting grounds in Scotland were let for £600,000. (OflScial Journal, November16th, 1877.) 133 362 THE BEITISH ISLES. the heat and smoke of these dwellings are intolerable, but the former is said to favourthe laying of eggs.* Such are the abodes of most of the inhabitants of Lewis !Yet the claims to comfort have increased since the commencement of the nineteenth
. The earth and its inhabitants .. . his den, while the fowls roost by the side of the humaninhabitants, or perch near the hole left for the escape of the smoke. To strangers * Hugh Miller, Sutherland as it Was and Is. t In 1877 2,060 shooting grounds in Scotland were let for £600,000. (OflScial Journal, November16th, 1877.) 133 362 THE BEITISH ISLES. the heat and smoke of these dwellings are intolerable, but the former is said to favourthe laying of eggs.* Such are the abodes of most of the inhabitants of Lewis !Yet the claims to comfort have increased since the commencement of the nineteenthcentury, and a porringer is no longer looked upon as a veritable curiosity. Topography. Perthshire is eminently a border county, for whilst the whole of its north-western portion is occupied by spurs of the Grampians, the south-eastern andsmaller section of the county lies within the Lowlands. The line which dividesthe Silurian rocks of the Highlands from the red sandstone formation, spread over Fig. 179.— 1 : 120, 2 Miles. Strathmore and the hilly region intervening between that vale and. the Forth, isdrawn as with a ruler. It marks at once a physical and an ethnical boundary, forit nearly coincides with the line which separates the Gaelic-speaking Highlandersfrom the men of Saxon tonjfue. In the south-east the Ochill and Sidlaw Hillsdivide Perthshire from the maritime region, and ifc is through a gorge in theseranges of igneous rock that the Tay, the principal river of the county, finds itsway into the Firth of Forth. The Carse of Gower, a fertile alluvial tract extending along the northern shoreof the Firth of Tay, forms part of Perthshire, and within it lies the village ofErrol. Ahernethy, supposed to have been the capital of a Pictish kingdom, but * Anderson Smith, Lewisiana. PERTHSHIEE. 303 no\r a small village on the road leading over the Oehills, is interesting to archgeo-logists on account of its round tower. Crossing the Lower Earn at the village of
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