THE LAND OF SCOTT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15298, 10 May 1913, Page 1 (Supplement)

THE LAND OF SCOTT.

The locality of Ravenewood : House in Scott's "Bride of Lammermoor," described as . standing at the northern foot of the Lammermoors, and at 'the mouth of a pass from the Merse, Mr. Bradley, -writing in Chambers's Journal, gives reasons for identifying with either Nunraw or Yester House, both ancient seats. Yester, by its greater importance, has the stronger claim although Edgar Ravenswood and Lucy Ashton > may have plighted their troth in the woods at Nunraw. The spot Scott indicates as being between .". Lammerlaw and Traprain." James Skene of Rubislaw regarded Winton Castle as most ; likely, while " Wolf's Hope" was Eyemouth, and . the "Kelpie's Flow. ".the Links of Eye. ". ' - There .is no ambiguity about another reference j the visit of Marmion and his suite to the village j inn of Gifford, and the scene in ; the now ; mined ; castle ;of Goblin Ha', near Yester House. ; It takes some care as well. as local knowledge to discover this place in Yester woods, and we blundered twice. "J Mr. Bradley ■ confesses having done so once. It i 3 greatly worth a, visit, combining as ;it does ; the lovely walk through 7 the woods - which overhang Gifford Water. ; Dunbar Castle, now a mere ruin, has had a stormy record. ' Dirleton Castle ; has been unin-, habited since it ; was > battered s down, ; by Lambert during Cromwell's > invasion ■ in, \ 1650. v'■ Tantallon Castle, beyond North Berwick, associated with the Douglasses, is also a ruin. The lonely Bass Rock,with its screaming. seafdwl, was a Presbyterian J prison tin the time of , Charles : the Second. Seton Castle, now no more, has. memories of .■• Queen;; Mary, as has also Hailes, a ruin near East Linton. .' ; • i