Tour Scotland Winter Video Awe Inspiring Ossian's Hall Gorge Perthshire

Tour Scotland Winter video of the awe inspiring Ossian's Hall and gorge after heavy rain at the Black Linn Falls by Dunkeld, Perthshire, Scotland. The Ossian's Hall folly was built on a rocky outcrop overlooking the River Braan for the 2nd Duke of Atholl in 1757. James Murray, 2nd Duke of Atholl KT PC, born 28 September 1690, died 8 January 1764, was a Scottish peer, and Lord Privy Seal. He was born in Edinburgh, the third son of John Murray, 1st Duke of Atholl, by Lady Catherine, daughter of William Hamilton, Duke of Hamilton. In 1712, he was made captain of the grenadier company of the 1st Foot Guards. On the attainder in 1715 of his elder brother, William Murray, Marquess of Tullibardine, for taking part in the Jacobite rising, an act was passed by parliament vesting the family honours and estates in him as the next heir. At the election of 1715, he was chosen M.P. for Perth, and he was re-elected in 1722. In June 1724, he was made Lord Privy Seal. He was allegedly the first to plant European Larch in Great Britain; one of a group of five near Dunkeld cathedral planted in 1738 is still alive. He died in Dunkeld on 8 January 1764, in his seventy fourth year, and was buried at Inveresk.

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