the ftimmit this rock is feparated into two divifions, each of which
rifes to a confiderable height, oppoffte one to another, and appear like
walls hewn out of folid ftone. In the intermediate fpace, fame fays,
this advent’rous heroine fixed her refidence. After a few more
windings, the fiver directs its courfe to CraigbaU, having faluted
feveral impending precipices as it ruihed along; particularly one of
enormous fize and fmooth in front, at the bafe of which, in a hollow
cavern, is heard a continual dropping of water at regular intervals.
R E E K T L I N N .
J ^ E E K T L I N N , three miles N. of Alytb, and two from the
famous hill of Barry, is one of the largeft and molt beau
tiful cafcades of water in Scotland. The river IJlay here darts over’
a precipice 60 feet in height, Through the violence of the fall,
the vapour is forced'upward in-the'air like fmoke, or, as the
Scotch term it, Reek, from whence it has its.-name. For a con-
fiderable fpace along the courfe of the river, the rocks on each
fide rife 100 feet, and the river itfclf in feveral places, has been
found 30 fathoms deep.
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Of certain A N T I Q U I T I E S in the Neighbourhood
of Perth.
Communicated b y Mr. T homa s M a r sha l l '.
ON the eaftern banks o f the T a y , about a mile and quarter
above P e r th , ,is a place called Rome, to which the Roman
road,, traced from Ardoch to Innerpeffery and Dupplin, points, and is
continued on the other fide o f the Tay, in the manner that lh all be
prefently obferved.
At Rome is fuppofed to have been abridge made of wood; for, in
very dry feafons large beams of oak, placed up and down the ftream,
are feen. Thefe were the foundations, fixed exactly in a fpot where
the tide never flows ; and is only immediately out of its reach. This
bridge was much frequented : ftrongly guarded; perhaps often attacked,
.for in the ground on the weftern fide are frequently found
urns.. .
' About half a mile eaft-of Rome, at a place called Sberifftown, are
the.veftiges of a fort but much defaced by agriculture. The caufe-
way-or Roman road is continued -from Rome, turns north at the fields
of Sberifftown, and paffes through a noted Roman camp at GraffywalL
' .
In its courfe, it goes by a Druidical temple confifting of nine large
ftones, furrounding an area of twenty-five feet diameter, placed on a
fummit commanding a great view. The road then paffes Berry-HU,
and .through the village of Dirige-moor., where it is very complete.
From thence it is continued by the houfe of Byres, Stobhall, and
Mmm 2 - Gallow