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42 JOURNAL OF A TOUR IN SCOTLAND
we entered upon Lord Breadalbane's planta-
tions. There is a little romantic — that is to
say novelish or fantastic cottage by the road
side, with windows in humble imitation of
casements — but casements are so utterly
unknown in Scotland that the panes are
fixed in wooden frames. A small island near
the foot of the lake, with some fine trees
upon it, and not too many. Upon this
island, Sibylla, wife of Alexander I., and
daughter of William the Conqueror, was
buried in a priory founded by her husband,
as a dependence upon the monastery at
Scone. It must have been a very small
priory — perhaps merely a Kill or cell — such
as the Errnidas of Spain and Portugal.
Taymouth is improperly named — that word
would rather appear to designate the place
where the river enters the sea, than where it
issues from the lake. The inn there was so
full that we were turned-in into a servant's
apartment, with no one comfort about it.
Mr Telford and I had the good luck to be
billetted upon a private house opposite, where
in a neat double-bedded room we escaped the
noises which disturbed the rest of the party
during great part of the night. The mistress
of the house and her daughter, both pleasing