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MELGUND CASTLE, FORFARSHIRE.

For the Scots Mag & Edin Liter Mis "pub" by A. Constable & C° 1 May 1809.

R. Scott St.

SCOTS MAGAZINE,

AND

Edinburgh Literary Miscellany,

FOR APRIL 1809:

With a View of MELGUND CASTLE IN . I

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Stanzas on Sir John Moore, by Mr
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Elegy on the late Mr. B.,
Ode to the Violet,

Isabella,-Matrimony,.

Register of the Weather for April, 224 Literary Intelligence, English and High Water at Leith for May, Description of Melgund Castle, 243 Proceedings of the Wernerian Natu. ral History Society, Monthly Memoranda in Natural His tory, Statistical and military View of the o “Austrian Dominions, Discourse by Lord Minto, Governor General of Bengal, to the Members of the College of Fort-William, ...02. Account of a Residence in Madrid, and a Journey from thence to Lisbon, by a British Officer, Description of Edinburgh; with an Account of the present State of its Medical School, (concluded,) 258 Letters to the Editor, occasioned by

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-Official Letters of Sir J. Moore,& ib.
Commotion at Cadiz,

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Sweden,.

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On the Advantages of Yeast Powder, 271
Memoirs of the Progress of Manu
factures, Chemistry, Science, and
the Fine Arts,

Original Letter from Swift to Dr
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Mineralogical Account of Mount
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Campbell's Gertrude of Wyoming, a
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THE

Scots Magazine,

AND

EDINBURGH LITERARY MISCELLANY,

FOR APRIL 1809.

Description of MELGUND CASTIE. THE remains of this ancient edifice

are situated in the parish of A. berlemno, in Forfarshire, a little to the

south of the Esk. It is noted as ha

ving been the property and ocasional residence of Cardinal Beaton, who

makes so distinguished a figure in Scottish history. It afterwards became the property of the family of Murray of Melgund and Kinninmouth, from whom it passed by marriage to Lord Minto, its present proprietor. It has evidently been an edifice of very considerable extent and strength, tho' now in a state of ruin. The present is the first representation of it which has ever been given; nor can we help being surprised at finding no mention of it in the Statistical account and other works relating to the topography of Scotland. We shall be happy if any of our correspondents can more fully supply this want, by communicating to us any interesting historical particulars respecting it.

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Mr Charles Stewart laid before the in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh, Society, a list of Insects found by him with introductory remarks on the study of entymology. It would appear has no very peculiar insects, and but that the neighbourhood of Edinburgh few rare ones.-The list contained as bout 400 species; which, Mr Stewart

stated, must be considered as the most common, as they were collected in the course of two seasons only, and with out very favourable opportunities. It was produced (he added) merely as an incitement to younger and more zealous entymologists

At this meeting there were laid on the Society's table the first two volumes 4to, with a volume of figures, of Comte de Bournon's System of Mineralogy; presented by the author.

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