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TOUR THROUGH SCOTLAND, 1760.
Letter XLVIII.
Drummond Castle, 23*/ August 1760.
D Sister,—From the Castle Camp near Ardock we went to
the East, and crossed the road which leads to Queensferry
opposite to Edinburgh and soon came to the park wall, and
then to the Church of Tullibarden,1 to which there is a Saxon
door, old narrow windows, and some that are Gothic: It is in
form of a Cross, and at the East End is the burial place of the
Tullibarden family who married the heiress of Athol that
brought them the Dunkeld and Blair Estate to which they
removed : Their names were Stewart, but on this marriage, they
took the name of Murray of the Athol family. Sir David
Murray Ancestor of the Duke founded here in 1446 a Collegiate
Church in honour of our blessed Saviour with a Provost and
some Prebendaries. Here is a sort of a small wooden Catafalch
placed over the tomb (as one informed us) of Patrick Earl of
Tulibarden. The old Castle is standing and was inhabited by
Lord George Murray:
We came back to the Edinburgh road, and so again through
Muthil where I saw a soldier 98 years old, who had been under
Charles 12th at the battle of Pultowa:2 Here is a Nonjuring
Congregation of about 100. And there are a few papists about
the Castle. They have no Limestone in this Country except a
little which is very bad and is found in the Roadway from the
Castle to the Camp near Comery.3
The Texati seem to have inhabited Aberdeenshire; the
Vacomagi Moray Bamfshire and part of Perthshire to the Erne,
the Caledonii and Silva Caledonia seem to have included the
rest of Perthshire and the East parts of Inverness Shire and
Ross Shire, the western parts of those Shires being inhabited by
the Cerones. The Venicontes, the Vecturones of the New Map,
inhabitted Fife, among whom Banatia is thought to be Orrock
by which I take to be meant the Camp or town on Lough Or.
1 Which now gives the title of Marquis of Tullibardine to the Duke of Athole’s
eldest son. 2 Fought July 8, 1709. 3 Comrie.