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The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland (1909)

Billings, R. W. (Robert William), 1813-1874, Wiston-Glyn, A. W · Edinburg ; T.N. Foulis · leaf 91

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all spring called St. Anthonys Well, at the foot of therock, is affectingly alluded to in an old ballad, the plaintive simplicity of whichmade it a favourite with Scott :— Now Arthurs Seat sail be my bed, The sheets sail neer be warmed by me ;Saint Antons Well sail be my drink, Since my true loves… … ROM a line a short distance beyond Dundee, the Carse ofGowrie stretches for many miles westward—the Firth of Tayedging it on the south, a line of hills on the north—until itnarrows in to a mere valley among the rocky eminences sur-rounding Perth. It is not quite a dead level, for some…

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