The real burial-place of Rob Roy is the Kirkton of Balquhidder, at the lower end of Loch Voil. The grave is covered by a rude grey slab, on which a long claymore is roughly engraved. The Guide-book informs us that the arms on his tombstone are a Scotch pine, the badge of Clan Gregor, crossed by a sword, and supporting a crown, this last to denote the relationship claimed by the Gregarach with the royal Stuarts. When I last saw the tombstone, as far as I remember, I observed nothing but the outline of the long sword. {237} NOTE 16.—‘_Thomas Wilkinson’s_ “_Tour in Scotland_.”’—PAGE 237. Probably one of Wilkinson’s poems, of which Wordsworth speaks occasionally in his letters. ‘The present Lord Lonsdale has a neighbour, a Quaker, an amiable, inoffensive man, and a little of a poet too, who has amused himself upon his own small estate upon the Emont, in twining pathways along the banks of the river, making little cells and bowers with inscriptions of his own writing.’—_Letter to Sir G. Beaumont_, _Oct._ 17, 1805. Wordsworth wrote the poem ‘To a Spade of a Friend,’ composed ‘while we were labouring together in his pleasure-grounds,’ commencing— ‘Spade with which Wilkinson hath tilled his land, And shaped these pleasant walks by Emont’s side,’ in memory of this friend.—See _Life_, vol. i. pp. 55, 323, 349. DISTANCES FROM PLACE TO PLACE. MILES MILES Grasmere to Keswick 13 Suie (road 13 excellent) Hesket Newmarket (road very 15 Killin 7 bad) (tolerable) Carlisle (bad road) 14 Kenmore 15 (baddish) Longtown (newly mended, not 8 Blair (bad) 23 good) Annan (good) 14 Fascally 18 (wretchedly bad) Dumfries (good) 15 Dunkeld (bad) 12 Brownhill (pretty good) 12 Ambletree 10 (hilly—good) Leadhills (tolerable) 19 Crieff 11 (hilly—goodish) Douglass Mill (very bad) 12 Loch Erne Head 20 (tolerable) Lanark (baddish) 9 Callander (most 14 excellent) Hamilton (tolerable) 15 Trossachs 16 Glasgow (tolerable) 11 Ferryman’s 8 House (about 8)