a burgh of barony and market-town of Scotland, county of Perth, on the north bank of the Tay, 15 miles N.N.W. from Perth. The river is here crossed by a fine bridge of seven arches, built in 1809, and communicating with Little Dunkeld, a suburb on the opposite side of the river. Pop.(1851)1104. The situation of Dunkeld is truly romantic, and the surrounding scenery highly picturesque. It stands in the centre of a valley surrounded by mountains of considerable elevation, which are wooded to the summit. With the exception of one new street, the houses are generally old and mean. The most striking object in the town is the ancient and venerable cathedral—an edifice partly Saxon and partly Gothic, the remains of which are both extensive and in good preservation. The centre of the nave is 120 feet by 60, the walls 40 feet high, and its aisles 12 feet wide. It is now roofless; but the choir was rebuilt and handsomely fitted up by the late Duke of Atholl, and is now used as the parish church. On the north side of the choir is the charterhouse, built by Bishop Lauder in 1469; beneath which is the sepulchral vault of the Atholl family. In the porch of the church is the tomb of Alexander Stuart Earl of Buchan, better known as the Wolf of Badnnoch, who died in 1384. Here, so early as 729, the Culdees had a monastery, which was converted into a cathedral by David I.in 1127. Among the bishops of Dunkeld were Bruce's bishop Sinclair, Gavin Douglas the translator of the Æneid, and Henry Guthrie author of "Memoirs of Scottish Affairs from 1637 to the death of Charles I." Immediately behind the cathedral stands the ancient mansion of the dukes of Atholl. A magnificent new mansion was commenced by the late duke, but at his death in 1830 its progress was suspended. The magnificent grounds of the ducal residence are not surpassed in extent and beauty by any in Scotland. The larch woods alone cover an area of 11,000 acres. The late duke Dunkirk planted about twenty-seven millions of these trees, besides several millions of other kinds. The site of Birnam Wood, so famous for its connection with the fate of Macbeth, is about three miles S. of Dunkeld. The Braan, a mountain stream which falls into the Tay, nearly opposite to Dunkeld, forms a magnificent cascade of 80 feet in height, and known as the "Rumbling Brig," from a narrow bridge made by the fall of two rocks across the stream. The stream has a second fall which, but for the other, would be deemed superb.