the strangers to her blood
Honoured with little less than filial love.'

_Wordsworth's Life_, vol. i. 39.

{196} NOTE 14.--'_The woman said it had been a palace_.'--PAGE 196.

A mistake. The old mansion here described was the building formerly used
as a prison-house of the Regality of Athole in which the Dukes, and
formerly the Earls, of Athole confined their criminals during the ages
when they, in common with all the other Scottish Barons, exercised the
right of heritable jurisdiction. This right was abolished after the '45,
and then this, like all other baronial prison-houses, fell into disuse
and decay. Nearly entire seventy years ago, it has now wholly
disappeared, having been used up, no doubt, as material for the
neighbouring buildings. There was, however, at Logierait, a Royal
Castle, from which the place itself and the large adjacent parish take
their name--Lag-an-raith, the hollow of the Castle,--while the
neighbouring small hamlet and railway station on the other side of the
Tummel are called Balla-na-luig--the town of the hollow. The Castle
stood on a high knoll overlooking the church and inn of Logierait,
commanding a view of the junction of the Tummel and the Tay immediately
underneath, and of the whole of southern Athole, as far as Dunkeld. This
knoll is now crowned by a high Celtic cross, memorial of the late Duke of
Athole. Immediately around it are seen lying here and there blocks of
solid masonry, the sole remnants of the Castle in which Robert II. is
said to have dwelt during his visits to Athole. Traces of the Castle
moat are still discernible.

{229} NOTE 15.--'_Rob Roy's grave was there_.'--PAGE 229.

Regarding this Wordsworth says, 'I have since been told that I was
misinformed as to the burial-place of Rob Roy; if so, I may plead in
excuse that I wrote on apparent good authority, namely, that of a
well-educated lady who lived at the head of the lake, within a mile or
less of the point indicated as containing the remains of one so famous in
that neighbourhood.'

The real burial-place of Rob Roy is the Kirkton of Balquhidder, at the
lower end of Loch Voil. The grave is covered by a rude grey slab, on
which a long claymore is roughly engraved. The Guide-book informs us
that the arms on his tombstone are a Scotch pine, the badge of Clan
Gregor, crossed by a sword, and supporting a crown, this last to denote
the relationship claimed by th