New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-12-23
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am very sorry to leave such vide gap be
tween my letters but was inevitably prevented
from finishing orc that was begun for the steamer
OF 4th November. / tkcn hoped to prepare one
after my arrival here time tor the ElIbcrnia but
a severe cold caught on the way, untitled me Tor
writing. 1t is now necessary to retrace my steps
n long way, lose sight Of several things 1t has
seemed desirable 10 mention to friends IN America
though shall make out my narrative more briefly
than if nearer the time OF action
II mistake not my last closed just as ! was
looking back on the hill where had passed the
night in all tho miserable chill and anid the ghosuy
anparitiops Of a Scotch mist but which looked IN
the morning truly beautiful, and had not known
IL too well to be deceived) alluflng IN It's mantle OF
rich pink heath the talest and most full Of blossoms
we anywhere saw, and with the waterfall making
music by It's side. and sparkling in the morning sun
Passing from Tarbet we entered the grand and
beautiful pass of Glencoe sublime that with pur
pie shadows with bright lights between and III
one place an exouissly silent and lonely little
lake The widness Of the scene was heightened
BY the black Highland cattle feeding here and there
They looked much at home, too, In the Park at In.
verary where saw them next day. In lnverary
was disappointed found. indeed. the position
Of every object the same as indicated III the :" lie
esnd of Montrose, but the expression OF the whole
seemed unlike what had auced. The pres ent abode
Of the Argyle family is modern structure, and 1t
boasts very few vestges Of the old romantic histo
~ attached TO the name. Tho park and look cut
upon the lake are beautiful but except from has
ty pleasure in these, the old cross from lona-that
stands in the market pace-and the drone OF the
bagpipe which lulled me TO sleep at night playing
some melancholy air. there was nothing to make
me feel that it was far cry to Lochaw. but on
the contrary | seemed in the very midst OF the
prose-the civilized world
Leaving lnverary, we left that day the Highlands
too, passing through HE'LL GLEN, r very wild aud
grand defle. Taking boat then on Loeb Levy, we
passed down the Clyde, stopping an hour or two on
cur way at Dumbartou Nature herself foresaw
the era of picture when she made and placed this
rock; there is every preparation for the artists
stealing little piece from her treasures to hang on
the walls Of room. Here | saw the sword Of
Wallace wight shown by son Of the 18th cen
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ago aud who did not know the hight Of this rock. in
Granny of which he lived at least ate and slept
and "donned his clothes From the top of the rock
saw sunset on the beautiful Clyde animated that
day by All endless procession OF steamers, little
sklfs and boats. In one of the former the Cardiff
Castle we embarked rs the last light OF day was
fading and that evening foundourselves in Glasgow
! understand there is intellectual society of
high merit in Glasgow. but we there only
few hours and did not any one. Certainly the
place as il may be Judged of merely from the gen.
eral aspect of the population aud such objects as
may be seen i'll the streets more resembles an
Mie,2lo than any other we have yet visited The
people are more crowded together aud the stamp OF
squalid stolil misery and degradation more obvious
and appalling. The English and Scotch do not take
kindly to poverty like those oil SUMMER Chimes 1t
makes them fierce or stupid aud life presenting no
ether cheap pleasure they take refuge i'll drinking.
I saw here in Glasgow persons especially wo-
men dressed in dirty. wrctched tattcrs, worse than
none. and with an expression of stlcss unexpcct
ING woe upon their faces Ear more tragic than the in
scription over the gate OF Dantcs inferno. To one
species Of misery suffered here TO the last extent
shall advert in speaking OF London
But from sll these sorrowu tokens by no means
inferred the iasehocd of the information that here
was to be found circle rich in intellect and in
aspiration. The manufacturing and commercial
towns burning focuses OF grief and vice, also
the ccnters Of intellectual life, as in orciu. beds
rhe tarcst flowers and fruits are developed by use
OF impure and rcpulsivc materials. Where evil
GENES to en- extreme, Heaven seems busy in pro
vidns means for the remedy Need indeed is
elarids throughout Scotland and England tor the dc.
voutest application of intellect and love 10 the cure
oi Ills that cry aloud and, without such application
,4ast ere very long seek help by other means than
words let there is every reason 10 hope that
these who ought to help seriously. though slow
IT, becoming alive to the Imperative nature OF this
duty' so we must not cease to hope even IN the
streets OF Glasgow and the eu.palaces ofManches'
ter and the ,iycariest rcccsses vi London
From Glasgow we passed TO Stirling, like DUN
barton endcared to the mind which chcrishcs the
memory OF its childhood still more by Miss Porter 5
Scottish Chiefs than by association with Sno~don 5
KNIGHT and Scotand's King We reached the
town too late to see the Castle before the next
morning and took up az the inn Z" The Scottish
Chiefs, N which had not read word since ten
or twelve years old, We are in the habit now Of
laughing when this book IS named, as ii i. were a
representative OF what is most absuriy stilted
hombassic, but now. in reading, my ma,urer mind
was differently impressed from what expected
and the in!atuasioa with which childhood and early
youth regard this cook and its companion. Thsd
deus OF Warsaw, was Justified Tbs characters
and dialogue are, indeed oi nature hu, the sen
ttmen, that animsseS them is pure true and no
less healthy than noble Here is bad drawing
aidrs.na hut coed music to which the unspoiled
heart will always echo. even when the inteec, has
leaned TO demand better organ for its conmuni
cation
The Castle OF Stirling IS as rich as any place in
romantic associations. We We're shown its dun
geons and its Cour, OF Lions, where says tradition,
wild animals, kept in the grated cells adjacent,
were brcagh. gu, on festival occasions to furnish
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