The daily national Whig. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1847-1849, 1847-09-14

other. It's antique ebony furniture, carved
cabinets, &c. are all Of beautiful workman
ship. The dining room is very handsome
apartment, with roof Of black oak richly
carved 1t contains fine collection Of pic
lures, the most interesting of which are The
head Of Queen Mary in charger, taken the
Gay after she was beheadcd a full length
portrait of Lord Essex, Of Oliver Cromwell,
Claverhouse, Charles End, Charles 18th Of
Sweden, &c. The breakfast parlor Is a small
and neat apartment, overlooking the Tweed
on the one side, and the hills Of E;trck and
Tarrow on the o!l.er. These hills are called
Tue ''wila hills" b. Sir Walter, and | can
bear testimony 70 the rnthfulness of the ex-
preston. found them bleak enough in
August, and am sure that in Winter the
g Ettrick Sheperdn must have had cold
time Of it. ,.v #
The library is the largest room 1t AbDots-
ford, sixty feet by fifty. The roof is OF
carved oak, after the models from Roslin.
The collection Of books in this room has
more than twenty thousand volumes, many
Of them Of great value. From This library
there is communication to the study, a
room twenty five feet square and twenty-five
feet high. Here every thing is replete with
conveniences for the former great occupant
Sir Walter had a communication from his
study to his bed chamber, which lie often
left, the housekeeper told me, aud wrote Tor
hours when'his family supposed him at rest,
The room is lighted with gas, and he wrote
and read under blaze Of that, which his
physicians believe greatly impaired his
| health
There hung the "deer skim" the place on
which his favorite dog lay at his feet in
deed, every thing is now as the celebrated
owner left it; even the las, suit of clothes
that he wore is carefully kept in a glass case.
| The at is much worn aud "out at the ell
bows" Willis, in his "Pencilings by the
Way" says
safer showing us the principal room, the
woman opened closet adj joining the study,
in which hung The last clothes that Sir Wal
ter had worn. There were the broad skir-
ted blue coat with large buttons, the plaid
trousers, the heavy shoes, the broad-rimmed
hat and stout walking stick-the dress in
which he rambled about in the morning,
and which he laid off when he went to bed
in his last illness. She took down the
coat and gave tia shake and wipe of the
collar, as if he were waiting to put it on
again"
They are now, as have said, in glass
! case ..-'-.'., ~, .... F.. -. ...-. ...'
Among the many relics collected by Sir
Walter are the keys Of the old Tolbooth Of
Edinburgh, the pulpit of Ralph Erskne, &c.
Having seen as much Of this interesting
place as our limited lime would allow, we
re,raced our steps to Melrose, and proceed
ed TO Dsyburgh Abbey, most interesting
relic, where, among the illustrious dead,
areHthe remains Of Sir Walter Scott. The
last in'oTrent was the orly remaining son
Of Sir Wafer, Lieut. Col. Scott, who died
81 the Cage Of Good Hope about three
i months aso All are now gone except the
children OF Nh. Lockhar,. @
h D:yburgh Abbey was founded in 1850,
during the reign If David LIST. The ruins
Of this ancient structure are almost o.or-
grown with ivy, and 10 my mind tits the
best specimen of ancient architecture that
! have locked on.
! Very near the Abbey is circular temple
dedicated to the muses., surmounted by q
bust OF Thomson and at no gre9, distance
is a colossal statue Of Wallace.