Note 105 — Chapter II · SUMMARY.

This place, which has acquired melancholy celebrity as a state prison, has in later and happier days been graphically described by that accomplished lyrical poet, the late lamented Caroline, Baroness Nairne (author of “The Land of the Leal”), in her spirited historical ballad commemorating the preservation of the crown, scepter, and regalia of Scotland, in which these lines occur—

“On fair Kincardine’s rocky coast There’s few that dinna ken yet Dunottar’s Castle, bald and strong, Stands towering o’er the main yet.”

—See Musical Lays from Strathearn, now first published with the author’s name.