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), embosomed in fine woods and plantations. The cele- brated Lord Kames was proprietor of Blair-Drummond towards the close of last century, and under his auspices was com- menced that series of operations, by which what was once a bleak and marshy moor, has been turned into rich corn fields. Leaving the flat carse land, we edge up through gently broken ground, and at the sixth mile, near the modern church of Kincardine, the roads fork — that to Callander taking the right hand, while the way to ...Monteith and Aberfoyle is to the left. The road then crosses the Teith, and enters DOUNE. [Inn : Macintyre's Woodside of Doune]. The noble bridge which crosses the river was the work of one who, though by craft a tailor, was thoroughly noble in heart. An inscription, impannelled in the left hand parapet, tells us that, '* in the year of God 1535, founded was this bridge by Robert Spital, tailor to the most noble Princess Margaret, the Queen of James IV. " Along with the narrative he boldly blazons the destiuctive sign of his profession, a pair of scissors en saltier.
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