fee.

The parchment containing the record of admission is, with the seal
appending, fastened to a riband and worn for one day by the new citizen
in his hat.

By a lady who saw us at the chapel, the Earl of Errol was informed of our
arrival, and we had the honour of an invitation to his seat, called
Slanes Castle, as I am told, improperly, from the castle of that name,
which once stood at a place not far distant.

The road beyond Aberdeen grew more stony, and continued equally naked of
all vegetable decoration. We travelled over a tract of ground near the
sea, which, not long ago, suffered a very uncommon, and unexpected
calamity. The sand of the shore was raised by a tempest in such
quantities, and carried to such a distance, that an estate was
overwhelmed and lost. Such and so hopeless was the barrenness
superinduced, that the owner, when he was required to pay the usual tax,
desired rather to resign the ground.




SLANES CASTLE, THE BULLER OF BUCHAN


We came in the afternoon to Slanes Castle, built upon the margin of the
sea, so that the walls of one of the towers seem only a continuation of a
perpendicular rock, the foot of which is beaten by the waves. To walk
round the house seemed impracticable. From the windows the eye wanders