The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-10-13
NORTH FROM DEAN.

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 she steamer leaves 0ban Ii passes
 ,,sAr stone on the shore and tine old
 lltite further on. The Clach-nan
 -- or Dogs Stone. as this rock $ termed.
 ,o called because Fingal used il as a
 :, 70 lie his dog Bran 10. The guide aos says the celebrated dog. l. | .eNe4ei. failed 10 md any one on he ..amer who knew anything abou, the o5. CT Fingal either for that matter, eN- sp: :ha. they had dim idea that flngal a. .s Ossian's hero. My own theory Is .sAt probably Fingal used to go 10 see some girl in tha, old r'Sin and that his ran new dog generally made ssch d cke; with the other dogs of the castle I'd; flngal, fearing the noise would rouse Ire old man, tied the dog a, the Clach- aan-con every evening. The stone is vorn around in way that shows the dog kai a lively time of it when tied there The other dogs probably kept Bran from 5eins lonesome. The Clach-nan-con s.ves one the idea tha, Bran must have oeen larger than Jumbo.
 The old ruin IS DunollIe Castle. the great ,..cashold of the Lords oi Lorn. The .or on keep rises ike a round tow CT. roSen at the top and covered with ivy. The rest of ,he castle has almos, disap- scared. l. stands us. at the edge of the -. In this castle lived the Lord of -c.n who deiea,ed Robert Bruce and tore :ae brooch oil his shoulder. ih.s has ..aa,s been considered very rude way bfeoehng a subject to l sing or a.he7 of bIooehing king by a sueaect This brooch. believe. Is sull in posses son of Colonel Macdougall. of io,n. 1 <aose mansion is in hollow, back from ,.e old castle don't know how long Il
 ST the Macdougalls moved "ol. of ne old house into the new but the posi- acns of castle and. mansion tell how peaceful the country has grown since the
 ocez :ime. The mansion IS In hollow.
 II most unmilitary position, commanded ls $ by the surrounding hills. while the d ruin still stands sturdily up on he :o1Sy promoni;oIy and in i,s decay lords over sea and land. was much dis appointed a, no, getting to visl; ;his 1sile We walked along up the shore rom Oban, and after passing the tlve ao;eis that face ,he bay and number oi -ew and handsome villas, the road be- anne very rocky and ended al an iI-n sate. Up on pole was d notice. the particulars of which forget. bui ,he tenor \ as 70 the effect that we eouldn'; gel ,n ina, particular time. To a well regulated ngad there is nothing in saeh an in,ima- non that IS objectionable. \ certain nan owns a certain castle, and II that ztrtain man wishes certain people kept O.. al certain times ism, the certain nan quite within his rights III keeping .aena out! Why, certainly. Yet there s so much la,en, villainy ,n my nature "a, such a notice always urges me on to trouble. IL as,onishes me when l reflect ,ha, l have lived in Britain, the great and of" ,respassers, beware for nearly 'aree years without getting into Jail. l sad; I'll be, four dollars and half l
 an ge, into that castle by going around ne coast and climbing up to it,"
 She answered: .. Perhaps you can, but
 syou may get into more than the castle sol had better leave your money and .-xets with me, so that the children and
 can continue our tour till yoa get out. ;
 Thus was the native hue of resolution s.ckled OCT by the pale cast of such an
 nfeeling reply as that. and enterprises of srea, pith and moment their currents ;arned awry and lost the name of action. 1nce than the deck of the Iona.
 Since then a gentleman told me tha, azny years ago he and his brother scded the wall in the way that pro- aOsed and that ii was an experience no, Q be envied. They climbed by means f he ivy ,ha, is so !uxnriani on the walls
 nd at some places had 10 work their say from under pro e-iing lodges in a ,and-over-hand iash.on that was ex- semely dangerous. 4; las; they reached ne top so exhausted that they flung aenselves a, full length on the wall and
 esnained there for some time hardly abe so move. After rest they jumped iown into the court of the castle and were appalled, 10 hear the most unearthly screams rise from the dense growth neal he walls. The gloom of the place made se frightfrl yells the more teTorizing \ required some courage and couple of stout sticks to investigate, bu, investi. sa'e they did, and they found grea, .zgle chained, with bone-yard around nm that suggested the Giantr in the
 Pilgrims Progress None of the local r general guide books that have seen mention this eagle, so was surprised to md an account of it in an American sork, Hazper's Handbook. From this earned that the bird was captive thers ,os over twenty years. When the poe Wordsworth visited Oban in IS3I, il seems that he wrote a poem about that ezsie. Since reading that statement ooked up the poems of William, and aeze are the verses referred to:
 Sakonored Rock and Ruin. tha; by law
 Irannie. keep the bird of love smbared
 sske lone criminal wh ose life is spared.