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N the north bank of the river Don, and added to the old mansion of the family,erected in 1604, stands the house of Newe, built in conformity to the wishesof his uncle, the late John Forbes, Esq., of Bombay , by Sir Charles Forbes,Baronet, in the year 1831. The sum left by Mr. Forbes for this purpose,has been judiciously expended, and the seat of his ancestors become aspacious and elegant residence, in the castellated style. The old house has been retained asa part of the building, and what is very rare in similar architectural attempts, it neither impairsthe external appearance, nor the interior convenience of the edifice. To the north of the houserises the mountain of Ben Newe, and to the south is a lawn, extending to the river.

Newe has for centuries been in the possession of the Forbeses. William, the first pro-prietor of that name, was designed “ William of the Dauch,” and was the younger brother ofAlexander Forbes of Pitsligo, ancestor of the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo. The family of Pitsligois the elder branch of the noble family of Forbes, and immediately descended from Sir John “ of the black lip,” whose son, Alexander, became the first Lord Forbes; his second son,William, founding the Pitsligo family; the third, John , that of Tolquhon; and the fourth,Alister Cam, was the progenitor of the Forbeses of Brux. William became Sir WilliamForbes of Kynaldy, and married Agnes Fraser, the daughter of Fraser of Philorth, and bythis alliance, obtained, in 1424, from his father-in-law, the lands and barony of Pitsligo.He died about the year 1446, and was succeeded by his son, Sir Alexander Forbes of Kyn-aldy and Pitsligo, who married a daughter of the Earl of Erroll; their eldest son, William,acquired the lands of Lethenty and Meikle Wardes in the Garioch, and married Marion,daughter of Sir John Ogilvie of Lintrethan. William Forbes died before his father, leavingtwo sons, Alexander and William, the former becoming, on the death of his grandfather, in1477, the heir of the Pitsligo line, and the latter, “ William of the Dauch,” as above-mentioned,the ancestor of the family of Newe. The Pitsligo family thus diverged into two branches, andtowards the close of the fifteenth century, the direct representation was carried forward by the

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