Castle Warlock I-III. [antikvár]

CASTLE WARLOCK. CHAPTER L A ROUGH, wild glen it was, to which, fair back in times unknown to its annals, ^e family of Warlock liad given its name, sharing in return no small portion of its history, and a good deal of the character of its inhabitants. Glenwarlock lay in debatable land between Highlands and Lowlands; most of its people spoke both Scotch and Gaelic, and there was in them a notable mingling of the chief characteristics of the widely differing Celt and Goth. The country produced more barley than wheat, more oats than barley, more heather than oats, more boulders than trees, and more snow than anything. It w^^ thinly peopled region, consisting mostly of bare ^ills and partially cultivated glens, each glen with its small stream, on the banks of which grew here and there a silver Vol. I. B