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Robert Burns's ScotlandKincardinshireKincardinshire is a little known county of great beauty, enclosed by its larger neighbours, Aberdeenshire to the north and Angus to the south. Much of its northern boundary is defined by the river Dee, though it leaps these waters to enclose the lands that surround the town of Banchory on Deeside. The southern boundary is marked partly by the North Esk; and the lands between, known as the Mearns, present a vivid contrast of green growth and the rich soil of Old Red Sandstone. This was the world in which a long line of tenant farmers of the name of Burness made their living, at least from the time of William, who died in 1670. The fertile fields of the Mearns from a plateau ending in rugged cliffs, save for the occasional creek or bay in which fishermen built their hamlets. Of these, Cattaline in particular was to inspire some of the finest paintings of Joan Eardley. |
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