3-021-467 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Devon Valley Railway in Scotland: gorge in the Burn of Care, Castle Campbell, 1869. 'Many of the clefts or ravines in the Ochils, where the mountain-burns descend to the plain below, are singularly beautiful; such are Alva Glen and Tillicoultry Bum, but the most remarkable is Dollar Glen. This has long been known to tourists; but the finest views of the rocks and rapids of the burn have only been opened up to the ordinary traveller within the last few years. It is a finely-wooded narrow valley, or rather gorge, with steep mural precipices rising at one part to a great height, and the Dollar burn running by many rapids and waterfalls to the Devon below...On each side of Castle Campbell flows a stream; on the right side the Water of Care, on the left the Burn of Sorrow. These unite below the castle and form Dollar or Douleur burn. Lady Naime has written a pathetic lament, beginning: "O Castle Gloom! thy strength is gone, The green grass o'er thee growing; On Hill of Care thou art alone, The Sorrow round thee flowing". This combination of Gloom, Care, Sorrow, and Douleur is certainly singular, and many legends have been made to account for it; but, like those on the origin of noble families, the legends have been made to suit the names'. From "Illustrated London News", 1869.