Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 edition. Excerpt: ... I've seen worse epitaphs. It is very ill engraved--the words, instead of being run all together like a piece of factstating prose, being divided into absurd lines. Mr. Baillie, Mr. Robertson, and Mr. Irvine dined with us at Fochabers, which we all left together, and got to Aberdeen by about five to-day (Friday, 18th April 1845). Arbroath, Tuesday Night, 22d April 1845.--We were at Aberdeen all Saturday, Sunday, and Monday--the 19 th, 20th, and 21st. We left it to-day and came here. Near this I saw two things new to me. One was Brotherton, about four miles on this side of Bervie. It is a private residence very near the seashore, with a garden which has scarcely any merit in being excellent, for, with a dry, sandy soil, a low elevation, and a sunny exposure, what else could it be 1 I saw one fuchsia with a stem three inches in diameter, and another fully ten feet high. There is a slope from the house to the flat below, which is divided into three terraces, each backed by a strong wall, forming capital lines of ornamental garden. But the house is, to my eye, the most interesting. It is very old, as indeed the whole place is, very low, very irregular, and altogether not unlike an ancient fortress. The rooms are delightful, odd places cut out of thick walls, and small, but comfortable, and very diverting. The whole house seems to be panelled, and most of the compartments of panelling turn on hinges, and being opened, disclose deep holes and presses, dry and commodious, where arms, kegs, or captives could be safely and comfortably disposed of. We were urged to stay all night, and had it not been for breaking tryst with Moncreiff, whom I engaged to rejoin here, I should have liked to have done so. The other novelty was Den Finella; that is, the...
