Litchfield enquirer., 1844-02-15

" The Goblin's Den," and also the birth place of Rob Roy McGreg0r, were pointed out. Alter cross ing LOch Katrine Cor Isle of Robbers) we took p6- mes and crossed over rugged pathway five miles long. think J. and H. would have been amused to see mother mounted little poney, with a long brown cloak and hood drawn over my bonnet as protection against the rain, and my gay velvet dress peeping out through the openings of the cloak. And they woNld have been pleased too with the sheep in this romantic region, the eeces be- ing very thick and Schite, while fheir heads tails and legs were very bIGck. We saw too number of heron, and on the side of this rugged road are the ruins of Inversnaid fort built to keep the Mc- Gregor's in awe. At Inversnaid mill, where we leave our ponies, is small waterfall the scenery IS wild and beautiful and the scene of Wordsworths poem, the G Highland Girl" Sc. Here we took steamer to sail up and down Loch Lomond Ca lake full of islands of every varying form) and the pride of Scottish lakes, its northern extremity narrowing until 1t is lost among the retreatng mountains and gradually widening as it extends southward. Its scenery resembles our own Highlands and other scenery on the Hudson. There are some beautiful country seats, and at Balloch we land At this southern extremity of the lake, are three or four fine caStelLated buildings each side, very near each other the ruins of BalIoch Castle, Castle Len OK, and Tallaquean Castle the seat of Sir William Campbell. We took coach to Dumbarton about s miles, where steamer is in readiness to proceed up the Clyde to Glasgow Dumbarton Rock, on which the Castle is built, seems like those on which the Castle of Edinburgh and Stirling are built to be maGde by the Almighty for the purposes of fortifcation and defence, and the mind of man, or the necessity of the times, have caused them to be applied to the express purpose for which they were created. The sail up the Clyde is very beau- tiful, and the scenery too, if we may judge by the glimpses we had between the showers of rain which poured almost necessarily. The river at Glasgow Mir. Buchanan says, when he was a child, was so narrow and so shallow that he could soade across by holding up his kilt and it has been so deep ened and widened that it is port and har5or for ships of the largest class. Glasgow is altogether commercial and manufacturing city; there is not much here to interest the stranger. There is a handsome square in front of the hotel, with col- umn in front 80 feet high, with statue of Scott on the top and some smaller ones scattered around.- There is fine old Cathedral, back of which is a bridge called the bridge of sighs' leading to a beautiful cemetery called the Metropolis of Glas- gow. It is laid out on the side of steep hill in terraces and walks one above the other like an am. phitheatre and embellished with innumerable beau- tiful statues and monuments; among the most con- spicuous is tall column with statue of John Knox on the top. I will take my leave of you at Glasgow, leaving our tour through Ireland and Wales for my next. With much love for yourself and blessing for my little ones-FarewelL
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