Glen-more, the Duke o f Gordon’s 5 and Glen-taner, the property o f
Lord Aboyne, Our old botaniils are filent about thefe Britijb productions,
till the time of Mr. Evelyn and Mr. Ray, This fpe-
cies of pine feems not to have been cultivated in England, till the
former, asfhe fays, received fome feeds from that unhappy per-
fon, the late Marquis o f Argyle: but Speed, in his chronicle,
mentions the vail fize o f thofe on the banks o f Locb Argicke, and
their fitnefs for mails, as appeared by the report from commit-
Coners fent there for that purpofe, in the time of James VI *.
'Taylor, the water-poet, fpeaks in high terms of thofe in Brae-mar, '
f' That there are as many as will ferve to the end o f the world,,
‘ for all the ihippes,, carracks, hoyes, galleys, boates, drumlers,:
‘ barkes and water craftes,., that. are. now in. the world, or can be.
thefe forty yeares y .5'
It is not wonderful,, that the imagination, amidft thefe dark-
fome and horrible fcenes, ihould figure to itfelf ideal beings, once
the terror of the fuperititious inhabitants : in lefs-enlighteh’d times
a dreadful fpedlre haunted thefe hills, fometimes in form of a
great dog, a man, or a thin gigantic hag called Glas-lich. The
exorcifl was called in to drive away thefe evil Genii: he formed,
circle within circley ufed a-.multitude of charms,. forced the Daemon
from ring to ring, till he got it into the lail entrenchment, when,
if it proved very obftinate' by adding new fpells, he never failed o f
conquering the evil fpirit, who, like that which, haunted the
daughter of Raguel, was-
*'Sfet<Ci chronicle, p, gj. + I' nnileffe pilgrimage, 136.
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