not the most faithful of historians, says, that while Wallace was residing at Lanark with his wife, the heiress of Lamington (tradition still points out the place at the head of the castle-gate), a scuffle took place in the streets between Wallace, accompanied by a few friends, and a body of Englishmen; that Wallace, being overpowered, escaped to Cartland Crags, and the sheriff put his wife to death; and that in revenge, Wallace collected his friends, attacked the sheriff in the night, and slew him and 240 Englishmen. Nearly two miles north-west of the Cartland Crags is LEE HOUSE, the seat of Sir Norman Macdonald Lockhart, Bart. the representative of a very ancient family. It is a fine mansion in the castellated style of building. The approach to the house is delightful; it contains a collection of fine portraits and paintings, &c. An aged oak, of huge dimensions, will be pointed out, the trunk of which is completely hollowed out by age, and so capacious is this natural room, that it is said Oliver Cromwell and a party of his friends dined in it. An album is kept at the house for the registration of strangers. A visit will amply repay the tourist for his time and trouble. Here is kept the Lee penny, famed for its medicinal virtues. It is a stone of a dark-red colour, set in a shilling of Edward I. and has been in possession of the family since a little after the death of Robert Bruce. That monarch, on his death-bed, having desired his renowned general, the good Sir James Douglas, to convey his heart to Jerusalem, and deposit it in the Holy Sepulchre, he departed on his pious errand in June, 1330, attended by a numerous train of knights and esquires. Learning, however, that Alphonsus XI. King of Castile and Leon, waged war with the Saracens in Spain, he repaired to the Christian standard, and fell in battle at Teva, in Andalusia, on the frontiers of Grenada. After the action, his squire, Simon Lockard of Lee, recovered the casket which contained the heart of the good King Robert, and returned with it and the body of Sir James Douglas to Scotland. The heart was deposited in Mel rose Abbey, and the body of Sir James in the church of Douglas. Lockard, from this circumstance, changed his name to Locheart or Lockhart; and added to the arms of his family a heart within a lock, with the motto, "Corda serrata pando." So far the story is confirmed by good authority; but what follows is matter of family tradition :-Having taken prisoner a Saracen prince, his wife came to pay his ransom, and in counting it out she dropped this jewel, and eagerly snatched it up; on which Lockard insisted, that without the jewel being included in the ransom, he would not part with his captive; and she, finding him determined, at length yielded it up, and told him of its virtues, namely, that it cured diseases in men and cattle. Many are the cures said to have been performed by it: certain it is that people came from all parts of Scotland, and even from England, to procure the water in which the stone had been dipped. It is said that when the plague was last at Newcastle, the corporation sent for the penny, and gave a bond for a large sum in trust for it; so convinced were they of its miraculous efficacy, that they offered to pay the penalty and keep the penny, which however was declined by the proprietor. The most remarkable and best attested of its cures is said to have been that performed, upwards of a century ago, upon Lady Baird of Saughtonhall, near Edinburgh, who, having been bit by a dog, exhibited symptoms of hydrophobia. The loan of this penny was procured, and the lady daily drank and bathed in the water in which it was dipped, for some weeks, until her recovery was completed a striking example of the influence of imagination over disease! The stone was always used by dipping it in water, which was afterwards drank by the patient, and the stone then applied to the wound or sore. Leaving Lanark, the road proceeds north-east; passes, on the right, Smyllom Park, (Sir Richard B. Honyman, Bart.) and, at the distance of two miles and a half, crosses the Mouse by Cleghorn Bridge.* Westward, about a * Near the road, on the estate of Cleghorn, are the remains of a large Roman camp. There is another to the south of Corbiehall, near the house of Carstairs. The great Roman road, called Watling Street (the line of which may yet be traced,) passed through mile and a half from Lanark, on the south side of the Mouse, above its passage through the chasm of Cartland Crags, appears in view the ancient house of Jerviswood, the property of George Baillie, Esq. representative of the illustrious patriot, whose death, inflicted under the form of law, is regarded as one of the greatest enormities of the government of Charles II. On the left, beautifully situate on the opposite side of the river, surrounded by extensive plantations, is seen Cleghorn House, the elegant seat of William Elliot Lockhart, Esq. The country now becomes comparatively uninteresting, few or no objects presenting themselves to attract the attention of the tourist. Six miles farther on, Wilsontown, an extensive iron-foundery, is passed upon the right. In approaching the confines of the county of MidLothian, the appearance of the country gradually improves, and every eminence commands some agreeable prospect. The Frith of Forth, and the verdant Ochils, occasionally appear within sight, and the tourist obtains transient glimpses of the fertile plains of West-Lothian. Fifteen miles beyond Lanark the road passes the village of West-Calder, and soon after Hermand, a seat of the late Lord Hermand; next Limefield, and then Brotherton, delightfully seated upon the steep banks of a small stream that descends into the Almond. Along these banks serpentine walks have been formed; through the woods which overhang them, openings have been left to afford views of the beautiful scenery; and, in a retired spot, a rude cave has been excavated from the solid rock. In a small glen, formed by the retiring of the banks of the river, and where is a rustic grotto, the rays of the sun have a wonderful effect on the shrubs, trees, and flowers, which vegetate here with surprising luxuriance. The road now passes both camps, and runs on towards Glasgow, upon the north side of the Clyde, generally a mile or two miles from the river. It comes close upon the river at Orbieston, where a bridge over the Calder, nearly opposite to Hamilton, of Roman construction, remains in tolerable preservation. There is another road from Lanark to Edinburgh, by Carstairs, Carnwath, Causeyend Inn, and Currie, which is a mile shorter. + The attainder of Jerviswood was reversed by the Convention Parliament at the Revolution, together with the attainder of Argyll. CALDER HOUSE, the ancient and stately mansion of Lord Torphichen, seated amidst extensive plantations. In the gallery is a portrait of the great reformer John Knox, having this inscription on the back of it: "Mr. John Knox. The first Sacrament of the Supper in Scotland, after the Reformation, was dispensed by him in this hall." A road now strikes off from the left, westward by the Kirk of Shotts, being the most southerly of the three direct roads from Edinburgh to Glasgow. Proceeding eastward, the road, immediately after passing Calder House, enters the village of MID-CALDER, nineteen miles and a half beyond Lanark, and twelve and a half miles from Edinburgh. It is pleasantly situate near to the romantic Almond, in a country richly adorned with wood, and highly cultivated. We may here observe that the passage of the Almond appears in ancient times to have been obstinately disputed by contending armies. On both sides of the river, from Livingston to its confluence with the Forth at Cramond, a space of fifteen miles, there have been found many stone coffins, inclosing human skeletons. A considerable way below Mid-Calder, a battle was fought on its banks in 995, between Kenneth, brother of Malcolm II. and Constantine the usurper, in which both generals were killed. It may also be remarked, that a mount near the village is pointed out as the place where, in former days, the witches of Calder were burnt. The road now crosses a small stream, and passing Calder Hall (Dr. Hare) on the right, it reaches, at a short distance, East- Calder, the village of Kirknewton appearing on the right. A little way off the road, on the left, lies Almondell House (Earl of Buchan), and beyond it, Cliftonhall, (Maitland Gibson, Bart.) The beautiful range of the Pentland Hills, which before this had presented themselves at some distance on the right, now accompany the tourist the whole way to Edinburgh, affording a pleasing variety of sloping surfaces and steep acclivities, of the deepest verdure. About two miles beyond Mid-Calder, the road passes Bonniton (Wilkie, Esq.) on the left; and a mile farther on, on the same side, is HATTON, an ancient venerable house, once the property of the Earl of Lauderdale, and now belonging to William Davidson, Esq. It has extensive gardens, and is surrounded by plantations and inclosures, extending to at least 800 acres. Immediately after passing Burn Wynd Inn, on the right is DALMAHOY HOUSE, the principal seat of the Earl of Morton. It is situate in the middle of an inclosed park, of between 400 and 500 acres, and commands a fine prospect of Edinburgh Castle. Admission to the grounds is freely granted to strangers; they enter at the toll-bar to the east of the demesne, and as the tourist advances, the scenery at first is far from striking, but gradually discloses itself; on the left is a sheet of water, and in front a wood. He proceeds along the banks of a rivulet, which forms one of those deep glens so characteristic of Scottish scenery, and which is highly ornamented with plantations; on the right of this glen is seen the old mansion-house of Addiston, seated on the opposite bank. Shortly after the tourist passes a gate, and winds round the northern side of the park, from the centre of which there is an agreeable view. At a short distance he arrives at a bridge, where the prospect is enchanting; the silvan scenery to the east, and the brawling stream pouring downward from the west, through woods and coppice, combine to make it highly interesting. From the bridge there is an approach to the house, which is an elegant modern mansion. Leaving Dalmahoy, the road passes, on the right, Addiston (Earl of Morton), and Riccarton (Sir James Gibson-Craig, Bart.) Farther on, a road leads off from the |