mon magnificence: iuch parts, which want cloathing, are planted
not only with the ufual trees, but with flowering ihrubs : and the
fides of the way are fodded in the neateft manner. In a little time
the whole way from Dalnacardoch to Perth, near forty-five miles,
will appear like a garden : if our filter Peg goes on at this rate, I
wifh, that, from aconfeffed flattern, ihe does not become downright
finical.
§■ On approaching Dunkeld, the vale becomes very narrow: at
laft leaves only fpace for the road and the.river, which runs between
hills covered with hanging woods. The town of Dunkeld is
feated on the north fide of the Pay; is fuppofed to take its name
from the words Dm a mount, and Gael the old inhabitants, or Caledonians,
and to have been the Caftrum Caledonia, and the Oppidum
Caledoniorum of the old writers *. A t prefent I could not hear of
any veftiges of Roman antiquity. The town is fmall, has a ihare
of the linen manufafture, and is much frequented in fummer by
invalids, who refort here for the benefit of drinking goats’ milk
and whey.
• fiThis place in-very early days became- the feat of religion. Con-
fiantine III. King of the Pills, at the inftance of Adamnanus is faid
to have founded here a monaftery of Culdees, in honor of St. Co-
hmba, about the year 729 : Thefe religious had wives according to
the cuftom of the eaftern church, only they were prohibited from
cohabiting dum viciffim adfniniftrarunt. About 1127 that pious prince
David I. converted it into, a cathedral, dilplaced the Culdees, and
made Gregory their abbot, the firft biihop, who obtained from pope
* Boethius, lib. IX. p. 167. Buchanan, lib . II. c . 22.
Alexander