Note 543 — Slains Castle and the Bullers of Buchan. (August 24-25).

Bouilloire. According to Dr. Murray the word is connected with “the Swedish buller, a noise, roar. But,” he adds, “the influence of boil is manifest.” I remember when I visited the place in my youth I heard it also called Lord Errol’s Punch-bowl. The tale was told that a former earl had made a seizure in it of a smuggling ship laden with spirits, and had had the kegs emptied into the water.