and garrifoned by Cromwel's forces : and finally, at the revolution
totally demolifhed. The ruin of the family was completed in
i 745> when the Duke of Perth., by an unfortunate attachment,
forfeited the antient eftate, to the amount of four thoufand a year,
and loft his life, worn out with the fatigues of the winter’s campaign.
K em p ’ s c a s t l e . Continue m y ride foutherly. See, on the'top of a moor about
four miles from Caftle-Drummond, a fmall but ftrong exploratory
fort, called Kemp, or, more properly, Camp-Caftle. The area is
feventy-fix feet by fixty-four., and is defended by three deep ditches.
This feems to have been a place of obfervation fubfervient to that
of Ardoch, two miles diftant. The Roman way, which is continued
from the camp at Strageth, pafles by this fort, and leads me to the
next. On each fide are to be oblerved multitudes of holes, moftly
of a round form, whofe ufe I cannot conjefture. Pafs through a
fmall glen, or rather a deep hollow, which croffes the road, and
fee a deep and oblong trench, perhaps, made as a lodgement for a
fmall party to defend this part. A little farther, on a line with
this, is a fmall round area, like thofe on Gajkmoor, but confider-
ably ftronger, being furrounded by not fewer than three foies.
Not remote from this, on the front of a deep dell, is a regular lunette,
with a very ftrong fofs ; and. near that, again, another round
fort, defended by two ditches.
From this lunette is a great fofs, which pafles half a-mile wide
of Ardoch, and, as I was. informed, fell into the water of Kneck, at
two miles diftance from its origin.
I am now in the midft of Claffical ground; the bufy fcene of
aifcion in the third year of Agricola’s expeditions. Through this
valley
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