Other famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . Castle 235 old drinking-hoLise, in the Castle garden. Of it Her Majestywrites as follows : — At a quarter to eleven walked with Jane Churchill and theDuke down tothe small Mu-seum in the Gar-den, which isvery nicely ar-ranged, andwhere there isa very interestingcollection of Cel-tic orn am ents,some of whichare quite perfect,and have beenvery well imi-tated, and of allsorts of odd andcurious Celtic re-mains, weapons,utensils, etc., anda very fine large collection of all the birds found at or near Dun-robin. Mr. Joass, the minister, was th
Other famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . Castle 235 old drinking-hoLise, in the Castle garden. Of it Her Majestywrites as follows : — At a quarter to eleven walked with Jane Churchill and theDuke down tothe small Mu-seum in the Gar-den, which isvery nicely ar-ranged, andwhere there isa very interestingcollection of Cel-tic orn am ents,some of whichare quite perfect,and have beenvery well imi-tated, and of allsorts of odd andcurious Celtic re-mains, weapons,utensils, etc., anda very fine large collection of all the birds found at or near Dun-robin. Mr. Joass, the minister, was there to explain everythingto us. No one would explain the contents of the DunrobinMuseum to the Queen better than Mr. Joass; and it is owingto his great knowledge of early Scottish antiquities, and to hishigh artistic skill, that the Museum has now become one of themost complete and interesting in the North. Mr. Joass informsme that among the contents of this Museum, besides the ordinarytypes of Hint and bronze implements from the district, which is. HARRIET, SECOND DUCHESS OF SUTHERLAND iBUST By MATHEW NOBLE) 236 Dunrobin Cattle rich ill the former, the collection boasts of three bronzes whicliare of ,<j^rent rnrity ; the one the only known British ex-ample of an anvil of the bronze period, and the other a swivelwhich, as far as yet ascertained, is uniqne. There are no very remarkable works of art at Dnnrobin :a few interesting family portraits — that of Farl William, by AllanRamsay, to which I have alluded previously, being the mostvaluable. In the Library is the so-called Orkney portrait ofMary, Oueen of Scots, which is traditionally supposed to havebelonged to her illegitimate brother, created Earl of face is a lovely one, and 1 wish 1 could take it on faith thatthis is a genuine likeness of Scotlands hapless Queen ; butalthough such good authorities as Sir J. W. Gordon, Laing thehistorian, and Woodburn of the Art Gallery all believed in thegenuinen
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