The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1845-09-03
THE TRAVELLER.
LETTER FROM w. G. BRYANT, ESQ.
EDITOR OF TIE NEW YORK EVENING POST.
GLASGOW. JULY l9, 1915.


must not leave Scotland without writing you
another letter.
On the l7:h of this month embarked at New
Haven, in the envrons of Edinburgh, ON board
the little steamer Prince Albert, for Stirling
On our way we saw several samples of the New
haven fshwves, peculiar race, distinguished
by peculiar costume; fresh colorcd women, who
walk the streets of Edinburgh, with large wick
er-basket OH their shoulders, short blue cloak
of coarse cloth under the basket, short blue pet
ticoats, thick bIne stockings, and a white
cap. was told that they were the descendants
of a little Flemish colony which long ago settled
at Newhaven, and that they are celebrated for
the readiness and point of their jokes which, like
those of their sisters at Blingsgate, are not al
ways of the most delicate kind. Several of these
have been related TO me, but on running them
over in my mind, | find, to my dismay, that none
of them will look we'll on paper. The wit Of
iae Newhaven fshwives seems TO me, however,
like that of the western boatmen, TO consist
merely in the ready application of quaint say
ings already current among themselves.
1t was wet day, with occasional showers, land
sometimes sprinklng of Scotch mist Tried
the cabin, but the air was too close. The steam
boats in this country have but one deck, and that
deck has no shelter, so was content TO stand in
the rain for the sake of the air and scenery. Af-
ter passing an island or two, the Firth, which
forms the bay Of Edinburgh, contracts into the
river Forth. We swept by country seats, one of
which was pointed out as the residence of the
late Dugald Stewart, and another that of the Earl
of Elgin, the punderer of the Parthenon; and
castles, towns and churches, some of them in ru-
ins ever since the time of John Knox, and hills
half seen in the fog, until we came opposite to
the OchiI mountains, whose grand rocky buttres-
ses advanced from The haze almost TO the river
Here, in the windings Of the Forth, our steamer
went many times backwards and forwards, first
towards the mountains and then towards the le-
vel country TO the south, in almost parallel cour-
ses, like the track of ploughman in a field
At length we passed ruined tour and some frag-
ments of massy wall which once formed part of
Cambus Kenneth Abbey, seated on the rich lands
ofthe Forth, for the monks, in Great Britain at
least, seem always TO have chosen for the site of
their monasteries, the banks of a stream which
would supply them with trout and salmon for Fri
days. We were now in the presence of the rocky
hills of Stirling, with the town on its decvity and
the ancient castle, the residence of the former
kings Of Scotland, on its summit
We went up through the little town to the cas-
tle, which is still kept in perfect order, and the
ramparts Of which frown as grimly over the sur.
rounding country as they did centuries ago. No
troops however are now stationed here; few
old gunners alone remain, and Major somebody,
forget his name, takes his dinners IN the BAN
quoting room, snd sleeps in the bed.chamber Of
the Stuarts, | wish | could communicate the
impression which this castle and the surrounding
region made upon me, with its vestigcs Of power
and magnificence, and its present silence and de-
sertion. The passages to the dungeons in which
pned the victims Of state, in the very building
in which the court held Its revels, lie open, and
the chapel in which princes and prncesses were
christened, and worshipped, and were crowned
and wed, is turned into an armory From its
windows we we're shown within the enclosure OF
the castle green knoll, grazed by cattle where
the disloyal mobiles Of Scotland were beheaded.
Close to the castle is green enclosure, inter
sected with paths, which we were told was the
tilting ground, or place of tournaments, and be-
side it rises rock, where the ladies Of the court