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Huntington Tower 190 Glamis Castle 194 Glen Tilt 197 Invercauld House 200 Balmoral Castle 205 Marischal College 207 Dunnottar Castle 212 Spynie Castle 224 Cawdor Castle (in full colour) 227 Battlefield of Culloden 232 The Old Man of Hoy 237 Earl's Palace, Kirkwall 240 Invergarry Castle 248 Kilchurn Castle 258 Aros Castle 265 Entrance to Fingal's Cave 267 Cathedral of Iona and St. Martin's Cross 273 Dumbarton Castle 282 Loch Katrine 289 The Brig o' Turk 294 The Trossachs (in full colour) 296 Stirling Castle (in full colour) 304 Doune Castle 310 Portrait of Thomas Carlyle, by Whistler 317 Ayr River (in full colour) 322 Burns' Cottage, Birth-place of Robert Burns, Ayr 328 Caerlaverock Castle 333

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THE
SPELL OF SCOTLAND

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CHAPTER I
HAME, HAME, HAME!

"It's hame, and it's hame, hame fain wad I be,
And it's hame, hame, hame, to my ain countree!"

ime was when half a hundred ports ringing round the semi-island of Scotland invited your boat to make harbour; you could "return" at almost any point of entry you chose, or