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ROTHESAY

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 758 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ROTHESAY  , a royal, municipal and

police burgh, and the chief
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town of the county and island of Bute, Scotland . Pop . (19o1) 9378 . It is situated on a beautiful
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bay, 4o m . S.W. of
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Glasgow, with which there is
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regular communication by railway steamers from Wemyss Bay,
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Gourock,
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Greenock (Prince's Pier) and Craigendoran, as well as by many other steamers from Glasgow and the Clyde ports . It is a popular watering-place, and as the bay is sheltered by low wooded hills and affords excellent anchorage, it is well patronized by yachts . Loch Striven, on the opposite
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shore of
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Argyllshire, is known as the " Rothesay weather-glass," its appearance furnishing a certain
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clue to meteorological conditions . The town is under the jurisdiction of a provost and council . Rothe-say has ceased to be a manufacturing centre, fishing being now its chief industry . Owing to its mild and equable
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climate it is a resort of invalids . There is a
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tramway to
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Port Bannatyne, pleasantly situated on the east horn of Kames Bay, and Craigmore, about r m. west of Rothesay, is a fashionable suburb . Ardbeg Point, Loch Fad, Loch Ascog and Barone Hill (530 ft.) are all within a mile and a
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half of the town, and there are numerous excursions by road to other points of
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interest .

The Kyles of Bute are within a

short
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sail of Rothesay . In the centre of the town are the ruins of a castle erected in 1098 either by Magnus Barefoot, king of Norway, or by the Scots as a defence against the Norwegians, with whom during the 13th century, and earlier, there was constant strife . The
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village which grew up round the castle' was made a royal burgh by Robert III., who, in 1398, created his eldest son David duke of Rothesay, a title which became the highest Scottish title of the heir-apparent to the
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crown of the
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United
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Kingdom . During the
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Commonwealth the castle was garrisoned by Cromwell's troops . It was burned by the followers of Argyll in 1685, and remained neglected till the rubbish was cleared away by the second marquess of Bute in 1816 . It was repaired by the third marquess .

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