It was from Montrose that Sir James Douglas embarked for the Holy Land in 1330, with the heart of King Robert the Bruce. Its people were Jacobites in 1745, when “Bonnie Prince Charlie” made the town his headquarters and Captain David Ferrier captured His Majesty’s sloop-of-war Hazard. Montrose boasts also of being the first place in Scotland where the Greek language was taught and where Andrew Melville, the Reformer, received his education. Stone Haven we found a lively place in summer, because of its sea-bathing. This town has had a history. Not far away are the ruins of Dunottar Castle, which, perched on a rock overhanging the sea, was in ancient times probably impregnable. Even when the castle surrendered to the English army, it was because of famine, and not from weakness of the garrison. It covers three acres, which are now left in the gloom of desolation. The iron rings and bolts, that held the culprits for security or for torture, still witness to the barbarous methods of our ancestors. Out at sea we caught a glimpse of the Bell Rock Light House, which rises one hundred and twelve feet above water level. It is often literally buried in foam and spray to the very top, even during ground swells, when there is no wind. Sometimes the pressure of the waves is equivalent to nearly three tons to the square foot. In one instance, at a height of eighty-six feet, an iron ladder was wrenched from its fastenings and washed round to the other side. At times, stones, more than two tons in weight, have been cast up from the deeper water upon the reef. Aberdeen is popularly called the “Granite City,” because many of its dwellings and public buildings are built from the native rock. Yet for the vision and fulfilment, one must see the place, not only in the purple light of the setting sun and in the ordinary hours of the day, but also after a heavy rain, which not only has washed the air, but has cleansed the house-fronts. Then Aberdeen is, indeed, the “Silver City by the Sea.” One may see how well the name is bestowed, for then the stately public structures and private dwellings gleam pure and white under the brilliant sunshine. Despite the heavy annual rainfall, the Granite City is not only the most prosperous, but one of the healthiest in Scotland. For three hundred years its delvers have been quarrying the durable gray granite, which, when cut and polished, is, to the extent of a quarter of a million tons, exported to all parts of the world. Nearly a hundred firms are engaged in the industry. The process of putting a lustre upon this very hard stone, though known to the Egyptians, seems to have been lost for thousands of years. When recovered in Aberdeen, about 1818, it became the chief source of the town’s prosperity. Then Scotland’s rocky base was transmuted into new values, as of gold mines, which the Aberdeenians have found in both sea and land, for Aberdeen’s greatest source of wealth is in her sea power.