The Westerly echo, & Pawcatuck advertiser. [volume] (Westerly, R.I.) 1854-1858, 1855-06-07
Incidents Of Travel.

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ia my last, I wrote you that l in
tended going to London, but have not
been thore, and probably shall not be
able to do 50 now. From Rotterdam l
went to Antwerp. Rotterdam is, in
my estimation, most 6ttipgly described
by its name, barring, as Paddy would
say, the profanity in this application
for it is a dirty, disagrseabfs, rotten,
tumble-down old place--Dutoh all over
as to whether it would require 50 strong
an erpletivs to qualify its rottsnness, as
the last syllable of the name expresses,
might, perhaps, admit Of asquestion.
Antwerp, like much better.' On Mon
day last, went up to Newcastle, which
is, as you know, renowned She world
oyer, as being the shipping plses Of SO
many (black) diamonds, as also of
being the birth place Of Captain Cook.
The next morning I started for Edin-
burgh-(whicb, by the way, the Scotch
pronounce Marlborough where I en-
gagged guide and proceeded to view the
sights of the place after the most ap-
proved American manner, in the regu-
lar 2.4O style, as had but short time
to spend here, and was determined to
get ny moneys worth, which, Of course,
I was in duty bound to do, as all true
Yankees should. The grand object of
Young America being, as you are we'll
aware, to ascertain how much he can see
in q given time. Among the NEST in
tcresting places which visited were the
Abbey and Palace of Holyrood, the re-
sidence of the ill-fated Queen Mary,
where was shown her bed and other
pieces Of furniture, as also the room in
which her husband was murdered. In
Edinburgh Castle I was shown the
crown and other royal trapings, the
sword Of Sir William Wallace, ,Scotland's s
hero, with innumerable mementoes Of
those " We read about" Not the least
interesting, to me, Of the sights about
Edinburg, were the house where formerl,
resided John Knox 2nd tks church il
which he preached. / also visited th'
: Parliament House but it would b.
useless for me to attempt to speak Of
: much more to describe, all these thing
to you in the compass of one letter.
e Il had the pleasure of meeting Joh1
B. Cough and wife at the hotel where
put up. He is to lecture there on Mon
$ day evening next. On account of
q want Of health, Mr.. G.. is about to re
turn to America. From Edinburgh,
went to Glasgow, distance of some 81
y miles, and from thence, down the Clyde
$ about 20 miles to Greenock, where, af
ter locking about short time, I tool
}. the cars on my return to Glasgow ant
f. Edinburgh. The Clyde is one of tn
most beautiful streams 1 have ever seen
r and l was surprised at the immens
amount of shipping that is built on il
4. From it had fine view of Dunbartol
D. Castle and the Highlands. I shoul
have been much pleased could I hav
spent more time among these scenes
. rich in historic Renaissance. Nothin
. struck me more agreeably than til
amenity shown me everywhere wen
think some of our independent, go-s
head Americans might, without detr
I'll ment to their manliness, much improv
their manners by taking few lessons
- politeness from the people I have mt
here, 'benighted and ignorant foreigner
N. as they are, though 1 fear that the bal
suggestion OF such an idea might subJe'
co me to the anathemas of the Know NJ
things name, which, after all, col
y tains, as applied to many who wear
much more truth than poetry. AS OF
nh instance of their desire to make then
IN, selves agreeable, gentleman whom
N met in the cars, when he learned that
q q was an American, expressed much r
-, gret that he could not have known tn
S. he would meet one, in order that
ke, might have SO arranged bis business
st, to allow him to devote somc time
@en zen showing me about. Even I. it was,
.oo made himself very agreeable by rende
,sr ing me much valuable information al
devoting some Of his time to me, whi'
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