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out the affiftance of any machinery. The price of coal here is J
twenty pence' to half a crown a tun.
The moil remarkable modern building here is the Tolbol
with a flender fquare tower, very lofty, and topped with a col
roof. Mr. Chalmers has alfo made a work of vaft expence overtli
glen on the weft end of the town, in order to form a communicatl
with his eftate, and to encourage buildings and improvements ®
that fide. To effedt which, he formed an arch three hundred feetiit
length, twelve feet wide, and ten high; covering the whole\
earth, feventy-five feet thick.
This place had been at times, from very diftant periods, thj
refidence of the Scottijh monarchs. Malcolm Canmor lived here, iiji
cattle on the top of an infulated hill, in the midft of the glen;
only fome poor fragments remain. A palace was afterwards I™.
on the fide next to the town, which falling to decay, was re-built b|
Anne of Denmark, as appears by the following infcription :
Propylrfum el fuperJlruSlas ¿ed.es vetuftate et injuriis temporum collum
dirutafque ; a fundamentis in hanc ampliorem formam, rejlttuit et ¡d
ftauravit Anna Regina Frederici Danorum Regis augufiij
Filia: Anno falutis 1600.
The ruins are magnificent, and do credit to the reftorer. In thi]
palace the brought forth her unfortunate fon Charles I. A gate!
way intervenes between the royal refidence, and the maenificel
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Begun by Malcolm Canmor, and finilhed by Alexander I. It wa|
probably firft intended for the pious and more ufeful purpoi
of a religious infirmary, being ftyled in fome old manulcripti
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