“My habitual residence was on the blank and dreary northern shores of the Tay, near Dundee. Blank and dreary in retrospection I call them; but they were not so to me then. They were the eyry of freedom, and the pleasant region where unheeded I could commune with the creatures of my fancy.” DrearyDundeeRetrospectionCreatures Of FancyFirth Of Tay Book:Frankenstein Source: Frankenstein