GREAT BRITAIN: Scotch Mountain

As the owner of Scotland's most famed mountain, James Graham, Duke, Earl and Marquis of Montrose, Duke, Earl and Marquis of Graham, Baron Graham, Hereditary Sheriff of Dumbartonshire, Vice President of the Institution of Naval Architects, keenly feels his responsibilities. Such a mountain as Ben Lomond (3,192 feet) cannot be lightly bandied, given away, disposed of or auctioned off. To say nothing of its intrinsic worth Ben Lomond is the very mountain mentioned in perhaps the most popular of hoar Scotch ballads (author unknown):

(Second verse)

'Twas there that we parted...

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