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to the great concern of the humane Monk. The booty was |j
menfe, for befides the wealth found in the town, there were fa
fail of ihips in the harbour*.
I muft not quit Dundee without faying, that Dudhope, the lj
of the gallant Vifcount Dundee, lies a little north of the plj
It had been the antient refidence of the Scrymfeours, and was 11
built in 1600, by Sir John Scrymfeour, a family ruiried in the di
wars. It fell at length to the crown, and was granted by Ja
VII. to the-' vifcount, then only Graham, of Claverhoufe; on j
heroic death it was given to the Marquis o f Douglas, and ftill 1
mains in that houfe.
In the morning continue my journey; and turn from Dili
northward. The country grows a little more' hilly; is ftill rat
cultivated : the foil is good, but the fields of wheat grow fcant
Leave on the left Balumbi, a ruined caftle with two round tod
On the right is Clay-pots, one of the feats of the famous Carcia
Beaton.
Leave, unknowingly, to the weft, a curious monumental Hoi
fet up in memory of the defeat of Camus, a Danijh commanit
flain on the fpot, about the year 994. According to Mr. Getii
it is ih form of a crofs. On one fide is a moft r'u' id e, fie®ure of t)
Saviour crucified: beneath, a ftrange Centaur-like monfter wiM
legs. On the upper part of the other fide is a man, his head ii
rounded with a glory, and an angel kneeling to him. Beneath i
two forms like Egyptian mummies: and in the third comparing
* V id e Gamble’s L if e o f G e n . Monk, 4 2 . Whitelocke, 308. 309.
t I tin . 1 5 4 . tab. L I I I . fig . I .
two men with bonnets on their heads and books in their hands.
The battle was fought near the village of Barray; where numbers
of famuli mark the place of ilaughter. But Camus, flying, was .
flain here. Commiffary Maul mentions a camp at Kaer-boddo, fortified
with rampart and fofs, to this day ftyled Norway Dikes.
■ Reach Panmure, a large and excellent houfe, furrounded by vaft
plantations. It was built about a hundred years ago, on the fite
of the feat of the antient family of the Maules, in the barony of
Eanmure, conveyed into that houfe by the marriage of the heirefs
of the place, daughter of Sir William de Valoniis, lord chamberlain
of Scotland in the reign of Alexander II. This barony and that of
Banevin had been granted to his father Philip de Valoniis, and confirmed'
to himfelf by William to be held by the fervice providing •
pialf a foldier whenfoever demanded *.
■ In the houfe are fome excellent portraits of diftinguiflied per-
»nages: among them, a half-length of the Earl of Loudon, chancellor
of Scotland, during the civil wars of the laft century:
ffteemed the moft eloquent man of his time, and the moft aftive
leader of the covenanting party. We may learn from his hiftory,
that the regard pretended by the faftion for the interefts of reli-
gjjgion, was mere hypocriiy. The proof may be colleited from "the
lmprifonment of this nobleman In the Tower, in the year 1639,
■hr the higheft aft of treafon'; for joining in an offer to^rut 'his
country under the proteftion of the French king, provided he
||would .affift the party in their defigns; for offering to unite with
gpowers the moft arbitrary ip Europe, and the moft cruel and in-
* Andtrfon's Diflomata, N°. x x v iii.
P a n m u r e .
P o r t r a i t s .
s veterate