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larger scale, the _Chimney in the Hall_.--"The Bay of the Frith" is the subject of the fourth chapter; which exhibits at the beginning a vignette of the _Hills of Hoy_. It closes at p. 14, with a vignette of _The Dwarfy Stone_. Then follow six plates, containing a view of the _Bay of Frith_, a _View from Hoy_, two views of the _Eastern and Western Circles of the Stones of Stennis_, and two views of _Stromness_.--The next chapter is entitled "Duncansbay or Dungsby-head," which bears in front a vignette of _Wick_, and at the end, in p. 16, a vignette of the _Castle of Freswick_. Three plates follow: the first presenting a view of _Duncansbay-Head_: the second, Views of the _Stacks of Hemprigs_ and the _Hills of Schrabiner or Schuraben_; the third, a View of _The Ord_.--"The Castle of Helmsdale" is the title of the succeeding chapter, to which is prefixed a vignette of _Helmsdale Castle_. It ends at p. 19, with a vignette of the _Bridge of Brora_. Then follow two plates, presenting Views of _Helmsdale Castle_, and the _Coast of Sutherland_.--The subject of the next chapter is "Dunrobin Castle," (the ancient seat of her Ladyship's ancestors, and now a residence of her Ladyship,) which presents, at the beginning, a vignette of _Dunrobin Castle_, and after the close of the chapter, at p. 23, four plates; the first of which is a View of _Dunrobin Castle_ and the surrounding scenery; the second, a smaller View of the _Castle_: the third, a View of _Druid Stones_, with another of _Battle Stones in Strathflete_: and the fourth, _Dornoch, with the Thane's Cross_.--The last chapter is entitled "The Chapel of Rosslyn," to which is prefixed a vignette of _Rosslyn Chapel_. It is followed by four plates; the first exhibiting a View of a _Column in Rosslyn Chapel_; the second, a _Door-way in the Chapel_; the third, the _Tomb of Sir William St. Clair_; and the fourth, _Hawthornden_, the residence of the elegant and plaintive Drummond; with whose beautiful Sonnet, to this his romantic habitation, the volume closes: "Dear wood! and you, sweet solitary place, Where I estranged from the vulgar live," &c. Of the volume which had been thus described, only 120 copies were printed. The Views were all drawn and etched by her La
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