tal of the tribe or nation of the Dalriads, and bore the august name of Dalruadhan. The place was greatly augmented during the period of the persecution in the reign of Charles II. by the arrival of a number of oppressed Lowlanders, who were encouraged to settle there by the Argyll family. Its present population is about 9000, who are principally engaged in prosecuting the herring fishery. * The Tourist when at Campbeltown, may be inclined to visit the Epidii promontorium of the Romans, now the Mull of Cantyre. This is a bold headland, which terminates the peninsula of Cantyre towards the ocean, and is noted for the violence of the adverse tides. It is distant from Campbeltown sixteen miles; and has a light-house upon the rocks, called the three Merchants. No remarkable object is to be seen along the road excepting the site of the old Castle of Dunaverty, of which scarcely a vestige remains; it is distant twelve miles from Campbeltown, and near the church and manse of Southend, and the ferry to Ballycastle in Ireland. The castle stood on a hill which rises like a pyramid on the land side, and on the other presents a tremendous precipice overhanging the sea, which nearly surrounds the place. Dunaverty was one of the strongholds of the Lords of the Isles, and afforded to Bruce, according to his historian Barbour, a refuge for a few nights. There also Alexander, or Alister M'Donald, known by the name of Colquitto, who had raised a party of Highlanders and Irish to support Montrose, made his last stand for King Charles. In 1647, three hundred of his men, who were besieged in it by General Lesley, having been reduced to great distress from the want of water, surrendered at discretion; but Lesley, having Occasionally, a steam-boat from Glasgow to Campbeltown visits the Giant's Causeway upon the coast of Antrim, Ireland, leaving Campbeltown on Saturday, and returning at night. them in his power, acted the casuist by distinguishing between his own discretion and that of the State, and barbarously put them to death. Alister McDonald escaped to Islay with a part of his forces. Along the whole shore, but particularly near Dunaverty, are a number of tremendous caverns. The steam-boat, after arriving at Campbeltown upon Friday, frequently visits the Craig of Ailsa on the following day, and returns to Campbeltown at night. The Craig is distant from that town about twenty-two miles, and about nine from the bay of Girvan in Ayrshire. It is a rock nearly perpendicular, of the height of 1100 feet, and its circumference at the base is about two miles, The only beach is on the north-east side; upon the west side there are stupendous ranges of precipitous columnar rocks, which are seen to the greatest advantage from a ship or boat at a little distance. The rock of Ailsa receives a variety of picturesque forms according to the point from which it is viewed. It may be considered an immense aviary, being almost covered with myriads of sea fowl, whose discordant screaming is deafening and incessant. There are also goats and rabbits upon it. It is wonderful that thrushes have taken up their abode, and pour out their melody on this rock as they do in the groves of the mainland. The proprietor, the Earl of Cassilis, lets Ailsa, (from which he takes his title as a British peer,) to a tenant for L. 30 per annum ; and this rent is paid from the young gannets for the table, and the feathers of the numerous birds that frequent Ailsa. Near the beacon, on the east side, are the vestiges of the huts of fishermen. At a great height are the ruins of a square tower or chapel of three stories, each of them vaulted. By whom it was built or inhabited is altogether unknown. At some yards distant from it is a fine spring of water. The summit of the rock, which none but the most adventurous would think of ascending, commands a noble prospect. TOUR VI. FROM EDINBURGH TO LONDON,-421 MILES. IN describing the voyage between the two capitals, our notices of towns and objects to be seen upon the coast from Leith to Berwick-upon-Tweed must be very concise, as ample accounts of these have been given in our Fourth Tour, and in the Steam-Boat Tour from Leith to Aberdeen. The packets and steam-vessels in dropping down the Firth usually keep the Island of Inchkeith on the north. The town of Burntisland is seen almost directly in front, upon the Fife coast; and in succession appear Pettycur, Kinghorn, Kirkcaldy, and Dysart. Southward is the beautiful and capacious Bay of Musselburgh, which may be considered as extending from Leith to Cockenzie, distant 10 miles. Below the links of Leith are seen Seafield Baths, and at three miles distance, Portobello village and tower. Five miles from Leith is the populous village of Fisherrow, and connected with it by three bridges across the Esk is the town of Musselburgh ; above the town is the village and church of Inveresk, and Pinkie House, in the neighbourhood of the scene of the battle of Pinkie. One mile eastward pass West Pans, and the burn that divides the counties of Mid and East-Lothian, a mile farther Morison's Haven, the port of Prestonpans, and onward half a mile is Prestonpans, famed for oysters. Near to the town is Schaw's Hospital, and Preston Tower, to the south-east of which is the scene of the battle of Prestonpans. A mile below Prestonpans are Cockenzie and Portseaton, two small villages, and inland a short way, the ruins of the Collegiate Church of Seaton. Two miles farther down is a small bay, upon which stands |