Dundee has spread over the green slopes and orchard grounds below the Law; but it has only increased the circumference of its fine environment of land and sea. Westward, the view extends over the fertile Carse, and range on range of the Grampians, amid which may be descried Ben Lomond and Schiehallion, and many a Highland peak besides. Behind the Law, the eye rises from the rich valley of the Dichty, flowing by Strathmartine and Claverhouse towards the sea at Monifieth Sands, to the Hill of Auchterhouse, Craig Owl, and other extensions of the Sidlaws, with glimpses of the heads of the loftier hills of Strathmore peeping over their shoulders; and, ridge behind ridge, these uplands subside as they stretch eastward, past many a storied and beautiful scene, towards Arbroath and the sea. Southward, beyond the Firth and the bridge, the rocky northern shores and hilly backbone of Fife are spread out like a map; and behind Newport and Tayport and the waste expanse of Tents Moor shimmer the waters of St. Andrew's Bay and the Eden Estuary, and rise the grey, weather-beaten towers of St. Rule's Cathedral and of Cardinal Beaton's Castle, beside the green links and white sand of St. Andrews. JOHN GEDDIE. [Illustration: BROUGHTY FERRY CASTLE.] [Illustration: BEN AND LOCH LOMOND.] THE FORTH. Comparative--Poetry, Romance, and History--Loch Ard and Flora McIvor--The "Clachan of Aberfoyle"--Lake of Menteith--The Trossachs and Loch Katrine--Ellen and Helen--Loch Achray--Ben Ledi--The View from Stirling Castle--Stirling Town--Bannockburn--The Ochils and the Devon Valley--Alloa--Clackmannan--Kincardine-on-Forth--Tulliallan Castle--Culross: Abbey and Burgh--The "Standard Stone"--Torryburn--Rosyth Castle--"St. Margaret's Hope"--Dunfermline: Tower, Palace, and Abbey--The New Forth Bridge--Inch Garvie and its Castle--Inverkeithing Bay--Donibristle House--Aberdour--Inchcolm, Cramond, Inchkeith, and May Islands--The Bass Rock--Kirkcaldy Bay--Edinburgh--Leith--Seton--Aberlady--Round to North Berwick--Tantallon Castle.