. The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland. nil. MALI.—(_Ab ILK CAMIISKLL ANTIQUITIES OF SCOTLAND 73 Cawdor Castle. )T is a matter curious, and not in itself unpleasing, that theprincipal places noted in the great tragedy of Macbeth shouldstill present two remarkable baronial edifices—the huge tallisolated pile of Glammis, and the grim keep of Cawdor, sur-rounded by its rambling, irregular, half-fortified true association, however, is more with the daysof Shakspeare than with those of Macbeth. Perhaps some part of thegreat tower of Glammis may be as old as the thi
. The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland. nil. MALI.—(_Ab ILK CAMIISKLL ANTIQUITIES OF SCOTLAND 73 Cawdor Castle. )T is a matter curious, and not in itself unpleasing, that theprincipal places noted in the great tragedy of Macbeth shouldstill present two remarkable baronial edifices—the huge tallisolated pile of Glammis, and the grim keep of Cawdor, sur-rounded by its rambling, irregular, half-fortified true association, however, is more with the daysof Shakspeare than with those of Macbeth. Perhaps some part of thegreat tower of Glammis may be as old as the thirteenth century, butno portion of Cawdor is older than the fifteenth ; and though itsthreatening drawbridge, its vaults, and its dark corridors, may aptlyassociate themselves with the I have done the deed ;—didst thou not hear anoise. yet the time when they were built was more distant from the daysof Macbeth on one side, than from those of Queen Victoria on the , had we an actual building of Macbeths day in Scotland, it would notbe invested with so much tragic gloom, nor could it so appropriately associateits
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