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■pe8 to thetn. -They were remarkable for being chief over ar
Imerous fet of fmall tenants. Not fixty years are paft fince the
laird kept up the parade of being attended to church by a band
Lf armed men, who ferved without pay or maintenance, fuch
^duties being formerly eHeemed honorable. This caftle was delated
by the then owner, on account of a murder he had com-
Ttted on his kinfman, Lord Spynie, in 1607. This affair involved
him in difficulties, and he retired on that account, to the
loufe of Auch-mullr about two miles higher on the North-EJk as
the infcription on the houfe fhews. A little after the Laird of
mzel thought proper to bellow on one Durie, a barren knowl near
the houfe, and by charter conilituted him and his family heredi-
pry beadles of the pariffi, and annexed the perquifite of two
Ibannocks for; ringing the bell at the funeral of every farmer, and
one for that of every cottager ; which remained in the family till
Kry lately, when it was purchafed by the Earl of Panmure, the
Relent, owner of the eftate. This is mentioned to ffiew the af- Iation of royalty, in thefe Reguli, who made their grants and con-
red places with all the dignity of. majefly.
■After, riding two miles on black and heathy hills, afcend one
■vided into two fummits, the higher named the white, the lower
ithe black Catter-ihun, from their different colors. Both are Cale-
mmn polls, and the firfl of moll uncommon ilrength. It is of
|n oval form, made of a Hupendous dike of loofe white Hones,
whofe convexity from the bafe within to that without, is a hun.
j|d and twenty-two feet. On the outfide, a hollow, made by the
of the Hones, furrounds the whole. Round the bafe
■ ft deep ditch,, and below that about a hundred yards, are the
veftiges
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