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178 RAMBLES NORTHWARD.
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We Will Take At Random Some Fifty People...
Beaufort House , tlie seat of Lord Lovat , the present chief of the clan Fraserwith its fine woodsthrough which are various and
the beautiful village drives of , Beaul open . to The the public river , of , is the situated same name about flows a mile throug from h
this estate , its rocky y picturesque banks adding greatly to the beauty of the scene , while its waters at one point flow round an island of
some size , called Eilan Aigas , where , for several years , the two young Stuarts , who professed to be lineal _descendants of Charles
Edward , by his marriage (?) with , the Countess of Albany , were permitted by Lord and Lady Lovat to dwell . These young men to
wore assimilate habituall themselve y the Stuart s as much tartan as , and possible in all with ways the endeavored claims they preferred . They had in their possession numerous relics of Charles
Edward and the family , which are said to have been exhibited in covered glass cases with with can indifferent dles burning ictures , the representing walls of the the room princi being pal *
very p , events of Charles Edward's life , the production of the young men themselves . One of them is also said to have borne a
strikingresemblance to Charles I ., a resemblance probably heightened by a close imitation of the cut of that monarch's beard , etc . Save
as objects of curiosity , they appear to have attracted but little public attention , and at the present moment would possibly be
viewed with disfavor , as one or both were attached to the Austrian mere service ruin . Beaul filled y with has its the Priory graves , founded of the in clan 1230 Fraser , which but is now in so a
, , " unkempt" a condition , that it is no uncommon thing to see human bonesand other remains of frail mortalitystrewed about .
Indeed the condition , of this picturesque ruin is a , disgrace to the government , parish , or whatever it is , to which it belongs , a
proprietorshi helregretting p which as we he stands failed amidst to discover its crumbling ; and the remains stranger looking cannot
upon p the handsome Roman- Catholic church now in the course , of erection bLord Lovatwithin a hundred yards of the abbeythat
y , , Beauly Priory was not ceded to him for restoration . The excursions from Beauly are numerous , and among them Strath-Glasse
stands foremost ; the traveller with whom time is not an object may pass several leasant days in exploring them . One of the
largest and best posting p establishments in the north of Scotland isto be found here ; the _carriages and horses are of an excellent
quality , and the drivers steady trustworthy men . Those who contemp arrange late here travelling for dog * b -c y art private phaeton conveyance or britska cannot as the do needs better of than the
, , , party may require , our own experience proving that the resources of the country in this line further northare not always to be relied
, upon . Never , for instance , shall we forget a vehicle furnished at Tongue to transport us to _Duiinthe only vehicle of any kind the
, hotel could furnish . It , was called a dog-cart , and certainly
was more fit for dogs than Christians ; of all the shabby , shaky ,
178 Rambles Northward.
178 RAMBLES NORTHWARD .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1859, page 178, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111859/page/34/
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