chief employment was for War, and Inroads; the whole Army was sometimes mounted on Horseback. Randolph, Earl of MURRAY and DOUGLAS, made an Incursion Anno 1327, into ENGLAND, in ROBERT BRUCE's Reign, with no less than Twenty thousand Horses. Oxen appear to have been chiefly, or exclusively employed in the Plough, and for the other purposes of Husbandry, but immense Numbers of Horses, were at all times used by Persons of Rank, in Travelling, as well as by the Nation, in War. These Instances from RYMER'S Federa, will suffice.

Anno 1842, DAVID BRUCE travelled, with Forty Attendants on Horseback.

His QUEEN, with Sixty do.

1340, Certain Ambassadors from SCOTLAND, had two Hundred do.

1370, ALEXANDER LESLY, Seventy do.
1868, The Earl of MAN, Thirty do.

JAMES IV. furnished the Race of swift, more than large Horses, for he was accustomed to make speedy Circuits through his Dominions. LESLY mentions a Journey made by this Prince, from STIRLING, by Perth and Aberdeen, to ELGIN, a Distance of One hun

dred and fifty measured English Miles, in One Day, which, even supposing Relays, shews the Fleetness of the Horses used in this Excursion.

Two Miles below LANARK is the House of Lee, the Seat of LOCKHART M'DONALD, Esq. here is kept what is called the LEE PENNY, far renowned for its medicinal Virtues. It is a STONE of a dark Colour, set in a Shilling of EDWARD I. and has been in the Possession of the Family, since the Year 1320; that is, a little after the Death of RoBERT BRUCE. That Monarch having ordered his Heart to be carried to the Holy Land, and buried there, the Chief of the DOUGLAS Family, undertook the Task of carrying it thither, the Person, however, that accompanied DOUGLAS, and actually carried the Heart, was SIMON LOCARD of Lee, who, from this Circumstance changed his Name to LOCKHART, and got a Heart within a Lock, for part of his Arms, with the Motto, Corde serrata pando. Having taken Prisoner a Saracen Prince, his Wife came to pay the Ransom, and in so doing, this Stone fell out of her Purse, which she hastily snatched up. This exciting the Curiosity of LOCKHART, he

insisted, that without its being given him, the Captive Chief should not be released. Finding LOCKHART determined, she at last yielded up the Stone, and told him many of its Virtues. Viz. that it cured all Diseases in Cattle, and the Bite of a Mad Dog, both in Man and Beast. Many are the Cures, which are reported to have been performed by it, and People used to come from all parts of ScorLAND, and even so far in ENGLAND, as Yorkshire, to get the Water in which the Stone had been dipped. It is said, that when the Plague was last at Newcastle, the Inhabitants sent for the LEE PENNY, and gave a Bond for a large Sum, in trust for the Loan; and so confident were they of its supposed Efficacy, that they offered to pay the Money, and keep the Stone; which the Proprietor refused. The most remarkable Cure, was the restoring to Health, Lady BAIRD of Sauchtonhall, near Edinburgh, who having been bit by a mad Dog, had all the alarming Symptoms of the Hydrophobia. The LEE PENNY was used for a few Weeks, the Lady daily drinking, and bathing in, the Water, it was dipped in, till she recovered. This happened ninety Years ago, but the Circumstance is very well attested. It undoubtedly confirms the ancient Say

ing, that "Imagination kills and cures." The Stone was always used by dipping it in Water, which was given to the diseased Persons or Cattle to drink, and the Wound or Sore, was also washed with the Water.

ALLAN RAMSAY was a Native of this County: as a pastoral Poem, his Gentle Shepherd, contains as much natural Truth and Simplicity, and correct Delineation of Manners, as can be found in any Work of a similar Nature, in any Language.

Linlithgowshire.

In LINLITHGow Palace, on the Eighth of December 1542, was born, the unfortunate QUEEN MARY. Her Father, JAMES the Fifth, when dying at Solway Moss, foretold the Miseries that hung over HER and SCOTLAND. "It came," said He," with a Woman," (alluding to the Manner in which the Family of STUART obtained the CROWN, by a Marriage with that of BRUCE,)" and it will be lost with One." In the Church, is still shewn

the Aisle, where KING JAMES the Fourth saw the Apparition, that warned him of the impending Fate of the Battle of FLODDEN. There is no doubt, that while the KING attended the Evening Service in ST. CATHARINE'S Aisle, One, in an unusual Form and Habit, suddenly appeared, and dissuaded him from the Expedition into ENGLAND, on which he was so strongly bent. It is supposed to have been a Stratagem of his QUEEN; but the Catastrophe which followed, in a superstitious and credulous Age, converted it into a real Apparition and a Prophecy, though it is evident, that the KING himself, had given it no Credit.

Perthshire.

In this County the Lakes are abundant, and in the Highlands of SCOTLAND, they are usually nothing more, than long Valleys between the Chains of Mountains, in which the River at their foot, not finding a ready Passage for its Waters, so spreads itself, as to assume a stagnating Form; hence the Lakes