New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-08-18
CHANCES AT EUROPE No. XXXH.
SCOTLAND

seen half enough Of II. Ny chief reasons are
determination to run over good part Of Ireland
ard an engagement 70 leave Europe IN the good
ship Baltic next week; but, besides these, TINS
continual prevalence OF fog, mist, cloud, drizzie
and ram diminish my regret that am unable 10
visit the Highlands Ny friends whe, having
days start Of me, went up the Forth from Edin-
turph ,clStrlinp thence visiting Lochs LOmOnd
and Katrine. thence proceeding by boa; 20 Glas-
row. were unable 20 see aught Of the mountains
hut their bases, Their heads beng shrouded IN
sapor. and, being landed from steamboat at the
head OF Lake navigation on Loeb Lomond,
toond five miles Of and-carriage between them
and a comfortable shelter, and only vehicles
enough to take the women and part OF the men
,be rest being obliged 20 make the distance on
foot IN drenching rain, with night Just at hand
Such adventures as this, and they are common
an tbas region,-console me for my drsappolnt-
ment IN no, having been able to see the Heather
In ITS mountain home. Tire Gorse, the Broom,
the Wins, not to speak Of the Scottish Thistle,
have been often visible by the roadside and the
prevalence of evergreens attests the influence OF
a colder CLINE than that of England; indeed, the
backwardness Of all the crops argues diner
eDce of at least fortnight in climate between
Edinburgh and London. Wheat has hardly
filed We, IN the Scottish Lowlands Oats are
barely headed and the Grass is little more tnan
half cut and not half dried into Hay on the con-
trary, IL now looks if II must winter on the
ground or be taken IN thoroughly wa,er-soaked.
Beng 50 much later, the crops are far less blown
down here than they are IN England but neither
Grass nor Grain Is generally heavy, while Pota-
toes and Tunips, though backward, look re-
markably vigorous and promising. Beautifully
farned is all this lowland country well fenced,
clear of weeds. and evidently in the hands of IN
tell,gent, industrious, scientific cultlvators WOOD
10 quite plentiful Oak especially, though shade
trees are nor so frequent in cultivated helds a.
m England, but rough, rocky preclpitous Spots
are quite common here, though IN the Lowlands'
and these are wisely devoted TO growing timber
Belgium is mere genial and more fertile but !
have rarely seen a tract of country better farmed
than that stretching westward from Edinburgh
70 Glasgow as mles) and thence down the Clyde
10 Greenock, some % miles further The farm
ers IN our Mohawk Valley oughtto pass through
this gloomy, chilly, misty country and be shamod
INTO better improvement OF their rare hut mis-
used advantages.
Travelling IS useful IN that 1t gives us bet
Ter idea of the immense amount OF knowledge
we vet lack | supposed till to-day that, by VIZ
tue of Scotch-lrish ancestry I'm psrD aud iair
acquaintance with the works OF Walter Scott,
Burns, Hogg, &c knew the Lowland Scotch
dialect pretty thoroughly aud yet notice PLAIN
w posted up This Lot To Feu, completely
bothered me. On inquiry, learned that TO Jeu a
lot means TO let or lease 1t for building purposes
in other words, to be built upon on ground
rent, suppose ! learned this years ago but
had entirely forgotten 1t.
The CLYDE, though a fair stream ut glasgow
~ quite narrow for twelve TO fifteen miles be
low that city, seeming hardly equal to the Con
necticut al Hartford, or the Hudson at Water
ford but then II has good tide, which helps the
matter materially, and has al grea, expense been
dredred out so as to be naylgablc for vessels OF
several hundred tuns We passed fine Amen
can packct-ship with very wholesome looking
body of Scotch emlgrants, hard aground some
ten miles below Glasgow, and was informed
that large vessel, even though towed toy
steamboat, rs seldom able to get down INTO deep
water upon single tide, bu, is stopped halt way
10 wal, for another This nver fairly swarns
with small steamboats, OF which there are regu-
lar lines connecting Glasgow with Londonderry,
Belfast, Dublin, Fleetwood, northwest OF Eng
landO Liverpool London, &c. We met four or
Eve boats returning from Excursion parties
crowded with the better paid artisans and labor
ers of Glasgow. their wives and children
The banks of the Clyde for some miles below
Glasaow are low and marshy, Wuch OF the inter
vale beng devoted Il pasturage, while rude em-
bankment has been interposed on either SIDE con
sisting of stones OF five 10 fifty pounds each, nteho
ed to prevent the washing away OF the banks oy
the ripple raised by the often.pasSng STEAMBOATS,
The end is fairly though not cheaply subsered
As we descend, the shores become holder; the
rugged hills. at first barely visible on the night,
come near and nearer the water low rocks be
GIN to hn their heads above the surface oil
the stream while others have their innate mod
esty overpowered by wooden fixtures hitting their
heads above the hgheS, tides 10 warn TIE mari
ner OF his danger At length gigantic cone OF
rock rises out of the water oN the night OF the
channel to hight OF nifty or sixty feet TeSem'
bling some vast old cathedral this Is Dunbar
ton Castle, with the anciently famous bat now
decayng town OF Dumbarton lying at the head
Of a small bay behind II. A little lower on the
lef. is Port Glasgow, the head OF navigation tor
very large vessels and three miles lower stlll Is
Greenock, quite a stirring Seapor, somewhat
addicted to ship-bulldlng Here our boat, which
had left Glasgow (22 miles aboNe) at + NJ.
held on till s for the train which left the same
por, at with the mail and additional psSsen-
gers and then laid her course directly across
the channel to Belfast, 1873 miles from Glasgow.
where she Is due at 5 tomorrow morning.