k young america in ireland and scotland had made several ineffectual attempts to stretch his from one point to another regarding tliis spider as a type of himself he watched it with interest and when the insect succeeded in his purpose interpreted it as a favorable and continued his efforts which were at last as successful as those of the spider had been though the war was continued for fourteen years longer the independence of scotland was finally acknowledged during the next century the crown was worn by three of robert ii was the son of the steward of scotland which fact gave a name to the house of of which he was the first king the son of robert iii became james i of land who was succeeded by five more kings of the same name which brings this history down to james vi the last of the kings mary commonly called mary queen of was the daughter of james v of her history we shall have more to say at and james iv of scotland married margaret daughter of henry vii of england henry viii three children edward mary and elizabeth and when the last died without children james vi of scotland directly descended through queen of from henry vii became james i of england and here ends the separate history of scotland the two countries were united by a common but it was not till one hundred years later that they were joined together by law the government is essentially the same now as that of england and the people are represented in the two houses of parliament io and or this is all i have to say at present young but i shall have frequent occasion to allude to the history of scotland as we visit various scenes of historic interest you haven t said a word about rob added a student when the lecture was finished i do not consider rob a person of sufficient consequence to occupy a place in a brief history of scotland the scene of his exploits was the region around and he was simply a rob in plain english was robert tiie red his true name was robert he was a cattle dealer before the of in scotland george i was the first sovereign of the family and some of the people of scotland wished to have the succession continued in the line of the james ii who left his throne and went to france was succeeded by his daughter mary and her husband of orange james made several attempts to recover his crown as i told you on the battle field by the in ireland he had an only son whom the people of scotland wished to call to the throne he is known in history as the he went to scotland and the pie there rallied under his banner among them was rob the cattle dealer his lands were seized and he commenced a war of his daring exploits and a certain nobility of character made him a hero and his name is a household word in land rob stock was rather at a even with those who had read sir walter scott s l young america in and scotland after the professor s rather contemptuous allusion to that worthy the students devoted themselves to the studies of the and at two o clock in the afternoon they heard the welcome pipe of the which called together the crew for an excursion on shore the boats were lowered and all hands em what is there here asked paul of his constant friend the surgeon when they landed at nothing of especial interest but the place is a commercial town and noted for its replied dr did you ever read s poems paul � a little sir then of course you have heard of mary she was buried in tliis town i never read much of s poetry for the that i could not understand the scotch it contains added paul there are plenty of his poems which contain no scotch though i think that is tlie charm of his his native humor and are best expressed in the dialect in which he used to think and speak you will find many of burns and perhaps you will have a deeper interest in him when you have seen them certainly he was a wonderful poet and in spite of his and the of his life the people of scotland almost worship his memory i have often heard of but i can t think what it is noted for said paul i know it is aa ai and or important but it is famous for something else that i have heard about it is the of a very celebrated man one who had added more to the wealth of great britain than any other man one who has increased the value of its productive industry more than a hundred fold i know who he is now exclaimed paul it is the man who invented the steam engine you are right he is generally called the of the steam engine though he did not discover the principle upon which the machine is constructed but he made it to the purposes for which tlie engine is now used and he is justly entitled to all the honor which is to him the party visited the memorial in union street which is a structure erected by the son of the great and contains a beautiful statue of by sir francis purchased by after a walk through the town the party took seats in the train for on this railroad the boys saw fourth class cars in which the passengers paying less fare than the third class are huddled in seats � cheap but not comfortable exclaimed paul and the train stopped at a village with tliis name i have heard of the place before probably you have heard of baron who recently visited 