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 STONEYPATH TOWER 355 THIRD PERIOD having a width of about 28 feet, and varying from four to five stories in height. Struthers was the Fifeshire residence of the Lords Lindsay of the Byres, a branch of the Lindsays who ultimately succeeded to the Craw- ford peerage. But probably the place is now best known in connection with Sir David Lindsay of the Mount, who, as a scion of a younger branch of the Byres family, was a frequent visitor at Struthers, where he enjoyed the congenial company of " Squyre Meldrum," who in his later years acted as steward or mareschal to Lord Lindsay, and whose stirring adventures by sea and land are the theme of Sir David's most amusing poem, "The Historic of Squyer Meldrum." FIG. 308. Struthers Castle. View from the South-West. In the beginning of the year 1651 Charles n. spent two days at Struthers, and two years afterwards the place was occupied by the soldiers of Cromwell. According to Sir Robert Sibbald, " Struthers, or Ochterother Struther," is so called from the morasses round it, and Sir Robert mentions it as " a large old house, with gardens, great orchards, and vast enclosures and planting." STONEYPATH TOWER, HADDINGTONSHIRE. This interesting specimen of an L tower exists in a wofully dilapi- dated state about two miles up the Papana Water from Whittingham Tower, and near to what was the Nunnery of Nunraw, now converted into a modern mansion-house. The situation of Stoneypath, in a little- frequented glen, is very fine ; it stands on the edge of a high and steep