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NARRATIVE
ON PRINT - Auchmithie
is a place much visited by strangers as well
as by Arbroath people. Sir Walter Scott, as
Mrs. Walker, then and for long afterwards
the landlady of its inn, used to tell, was
a visitor to it. He put up at the inn, which
afterwards, and till recently, was known as
the 'Waverley Inn.'
Robert Burns spent part of a day in Auchmithie.
It was on 13th September 1787, when he was
on his return journey from his third Highland
Tour, which he had made along with his friend
Nicol. The poet returned south from Inverness
by the coast. After spending two days among
his relations at Stonehaven, he went on to
Montrose. Continuing his journey, he breakfasted
at Auchmithie on the 13th, and then sailed
along the coast, examining the caverns, 'particularly
the Gairiepot' (Gaylet Pot). The poet landed
at Arbroath, where he dinned, and examined
the 'stately ruins of Arbroath Abbey.' (Notes
by George Hay, 1883)
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