Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1835. Excerpt: ... CRICHTOUN CASTLE. 105 neither remarkably wild nor picturesque, yet impressing the traveller almost with a feeling of the sublime by its own lofty and massive majesty. The edifice consists of a quadrangular mass of buildings, almost all of different ages. The most ancient is supposed to be a small donjon in the north western angle, which was probably the only residence of the Crichtouns, till the political aggrandizement of the family introduced a taste for magnificence. Some of the adjacent buildings to the east are referred by Scott to the epoch of James II.; but there are no precise dates for determining the age of the other portions. The eastern side is very splendid in architecture, and therefore very unlike a Scottish castle. Above the portico of the front facing the inner court, the stones are cut in the form of diamonds, which gives a rich and somewhat fantastic appearance to the edifice. The whole of the first floor of this side, as was frequently the case, is disposed in a grand gallery, used probably as a banquetting-hall. The massie-more, or subterranean dungeon of the castle, described by Pennant, as "a deep hole with a narrow mouth," is connected with an anecdote, which shows in a very curious light, the manners of the time. I have already noticed, however, a similar fact in describing the conflict between the Breadalbane men and a highland clan. On that occasion the audacity of travellers passing through the country, without paying their respects to the chief, cost a considerable loss of blood; but at Crichtoun castle the baron contented himself with 106 JUAMSIE-WORE. lowering the contumacious stranger into the depths of his subterranean. This personage, it is said, proved to be Scott of Buccleugh, one of the most powerful chiefs on the bord...
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