THE /WHITE CAT TE H = T BfTJT' .
■vreS to thefn. -They were remarkable for being chief over a
■numerous fet of fmall tenants. Not fixty years are paft fince the
laifd kept up the parade of being attended to church by a band
|f[ armed men, who ferved without pay or maintenance, fuch
'd u tie s being formerly eiteemed honorable. This caitle was de-
■rted by the then owner, on account of a murder he had com-
biitted on his kinfman, Lord Spynie, in 1607. This affair in-
Ivijlved him in difficulties, and he retired on that account, to the
■juie of Auch-mully about two miles: higher on the North-EJk as
Ihe infcription on the houfe ffiews. A little after the Laird of
imd thought proper to beftow on one Durie, a barren knowl near
I» houfe, and by charter conftituted him and his family heredi-
itlf beadles of the parifh, and annexed the perquifite of two
linnocks for ringing the bell at the funeral of every farmer, and
ole for that of every cottager; which remained in the family till
Jrj lately,’ when it was purchafed by the Earl of Panmure, the
|lent owner of the eftate. This is mentioned to ffiew the af-
lation of royalty in thefe Reguli, who made their grants and conked
places with all the dignity of majefty.
TAfter. riding two miles on black and heathy hills, afcend one
rided into two fummits, the higher named the white, the lower
Iblack Catter-thun, from their different colors. Both are Cale-
ian pofts, and the firft of moil uncommon ftrength. It is of
[ oval form, made of a ftupendous dike of loofe white (tones,
|ofe convexity from the bafe within to that without, is a hun.
fd and twenty-two feet. On the outfide, a hollow, made by the
jpofition of the (tones, furrounds the whole. Round the bafe
■ A deep ditch,, and below that about a hundred yards, are the
veltige s
C a t t e r - t h u n .