This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857 edition. Excerpt: ...presenting, on the other, an abrupt and overhangingprecipice. It is remarkable for its immense quantities of sea-fowl, chiefly solan geese Tantallgn Castle. Upon the top of the rock gushes out a spring of clear water, and there is verdure enough to support a few sheep. The Bass was long the stronghold ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857 edition. Excerpt: ...presenting, on the other, an abrupt and overhangingprecipice. It is remarkable for its immense quantities of sea-fowl, chiefly solan geese Tantallgn Castle. Upon the top of the rock gushes out a spring of clear water, and there is verdure enough to support a few sheep. The Bass was long the stronghold of a family of the name of Lauder, one of whom distinguished himself as a compatriot of Wallace. The castle, situated on the south side of the island, is now ruinous. In 1671 it was sold by the Lauder family, for 4000, to Charles II., by whom it was converted into a royal fortress and state prison. Many of the most eminent of the Covenanters were confined here. At the licvolution, it was the last stronghold in Great Britain that held out for James VII.; but after a resistance of several months, the garrison were at last compelled to surrender, by the failure of their supplies of provisions. The Bass is now the property of Sir Hew Dalrymple, Bart. Boats may be hired for visiting it at North Berwick, or at Canty Bay, near Tautallon, upon due notice being given. Fast Castle (the Wolfs Crag of the Bride of I.ammermoor) forms an agreeable day's excursion from Edinburgh by the North British Railway, coming out at Cockburnspath Station, 37 miles distant. Fast Castle is about i1 miles distant from that station. The promontory on which the castle is built derives its name from an ancient stronghold, built upon the very point of the precipitous headland. The castle is thus described in the tragic tale mentioned above: --" The roar of the sea had long announced their approach to the cliffs, on the summit of which, like the nest of some sea-eagle, the founder of the fortalice had perched his eyry. The pale moon, which had hitherto been...
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