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Updated: June 10, 2025
He had accordingly proceeded by Kinross, intending to make his line as straight as possible, without paying much attention to the highways; and, on reaching the village of Strathmiglo, he had been directed across a part of the Ochils as the nearest road to Newburgh at which part he intended to cross the Tay.
The Great Hall, where the Scottish Parliament used to meet, was also very interesting as connected with the ancient history of the country. From Stirling we walked to Alloa, passing the picturesque cascades rushing down the cleft's of the Ochils.
"Well," he said, "they are only heard by those whose days are numbered; at least, so say the folk about here." "Of course, it's only a fable," she laughed. "The people of the Ochils are so very superstitious." "I believe the fatal result of listening to those mysterious Whispers has been proved in more than one instance," remarked the young man quite seriously.
The little army established itself easily in the enemies' territory, and, after two days' rest at Dunfermline, advanced over the Ochils towards Perth. The regent had by that time gathered together an imposing army.
From the summit you look over a great expanse of champaign sloping to the sea and behold a large variety of distant hills. There are the hills of Fife, the hills of Peebles, the Lammermoors, and the Ochils, more or less mountainous in outline, more or less blue with distance.
But what seems to have moved her most was the magnificent view, which included the rich Lothians and the silver shield of the Frith, and stretched, but only, when the weather was fine enough, in the direction of Stirlingshire, to the round-backed Ochils and the blue giants, the Grampians, while at her feet lay the green gardens of Princes Street and the handsome street itself once the Nor' Loch and the Burgh Muir Allan Ramsay's house and Heriot's Hospital, or "Wark," the princely gift of the worthy jeweller to his native town.
Every shepherd of the Ochils knows of the Lady of Glencardine who, on rare occasions, had been seen dressed in green flitting before the modern mansion, and who was said to be the spectre of the young Lady Jane Glencardine, who in 1710 was foully drowned in the Earn by her jealous lover, the Lord of Glamis, and whose body was never recovered.
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