a town of Scotland, in the shire of Perth, seated on the north side of the river Tay, in a situation truly romantic, among very high and almost inaccessible crags, part naked and part wooded. wooded. It is the chief market town of the Highlands, and has been greatly improved with buildings by the dukes of Athol.

The place is of great antiquity. It was the capital of ancient Caledonia. About the dawn of Christianity, a Pictish king made it the seat of religion, by erecting a monastery of Culdees there; which King David I. in 1130 converted into a cathedral, and it ranked as the first in Scotland. The entire shell of the cathedral still remains, the east end serving for a kirk, on the north side of which is the burial place of the dukes of Athol. The style of architecture is simple and elegant, the pillars round. The monument of one of its bishops remains on the south aisle of the nave, as also that of Alexander Stuart earl of Buchan, third son of Robert II., called for his cruelty The Wolf of Badenoch, who died in 1394. The tower at the west end, with a singular crack down one of its sides, adds to the picturesque appearance which the whole makes among the venerable pines at the end of the duke's garden. His Grace's seat is a modern building, and not large, with pleasant walks and plantations, and a fine cascade on the water of Bran, which in its way from the western hills forms an astonishing fall of 150 feet, called the Rumbling Brig, from a narrow bridge made by the fall of two rocks across the stream. The pencil of Rosa never formed a more horrid scene. The stream has a second fall, which, without seeing the other, would be deemed capital. Sir James Galloway, master of requests to James VI. and Charles I., was created Lord Dunkeld 1645, whose grandson James was attainted at the Revolution, and dying at the beginning of this century, the title became extinct. Population 1360 in 1811.