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
|