Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1863-12-05
Written expressly for the Dayton Emplfel
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THE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

THE HIGHLANDs-CoNTINUED
So fully has every scene in this vicinity
become imbued with the incidents related by
the poet, and so faithfully has he portrayed
them, that we were fully convinced for the
being, that every event he mel r.
just as narrated, and were ever
n tracing the localities he mel
giving our apprecative attentiv. - ..,...u-
ties of the scene as whole, which is indeed
worthy of all his glowing words of praise.
1t belongs TO him. He discovered it, seized
upon it, made it his own and peopled it with
the noble children of his train. Then men
began to come to look upon it, and from year
to year increasing crowds have come-from
year to year, until men cease TO love the
beautiful throngs will come, and every one
of them will have Sir Walters words upon
his tongue
He made it his monument, and by it will
he be remembered in all coming time
1t was jast at the entrance, of this deep and
narrow glen, that Fitz James "gallant Grey"
sank exhausted beneath them; and here ragged
the battle of Bealan-Duine. A little beyond
to the east is Loeb Achrny;
-. ''Thou lovely lalScl
The rocks, the bosky thckets, sleep
So stllly on thy bosom deep.
The larks blithe carol from the cloud
Seems for the scene too gully loud"
Near it is the "Brigg of Turk" and "Dun-
craggan's Huts," where the first bearer of the
"fery cross" passed, and finding Duncan
dead gave the symbol into the hands of his
STRIPPING son. Then Loch Vennaehar. a
beautiful expanse of water five miles long
and one and half broad, out of whose
eastern end flows the clear and shining Teitb
But little distance down this river, is Coilan-
togle Ford, the spot which marked "clan
alpine's outmost guard" where after a morn.
ing's walk Of eight miles Fitz James and
ROderick, fought the duel which every how
reads about with beating heart and quickenod
breath Where
"Each looked t, sun and stream and plain.
AS what they neer might see again
Then foot and point and eye opposed,
In dubious strife the darkly closed"
short distance further on at Boobastte
are the remains of Roman Camp and on
the right OF that stands Ben led which The
Druids named the mount Of God. Further
| on uVlohu the Hltie Town OF CalandeF. wa
passed the blanks and braes of Bopnv
Doune' the town Of Dunblane of which
''Jessie'' was the 'Gower;" crossed the sng.
gish river Forth at the point where Wallace
made stand against the English in I9os
and although outnumbered defeated them
with terrible slaughter, and sent the survivors
in dismay back to their own homes: and them
we climbed the rocky crag which is crowned
by the towers of Stirling Castle
One of the finest views in the world was
before us, when we reached the rampart four
hundred feet above the wide plain. which on
sll sides spreads out from the isolated emin-
snce on which they stand. Ii is The
scene of the most momentous events IN
the history Of Scotland. Every acre of
that beautiful plain has been aattened by
human blood Twelve battles have been
fought upon it, and more than one Of them
decided which of the contendinp Kipgssbould
wear the crown, There at the Bridge. Wal
lace discounted Warenne and Cressineham.
and over yonder seventeen years later. on me-
banks OF little brook called Ranpoekburn.
Robert Bruce, with his thirty Thousand Scots
met the one hundred thousand Enplisb of
proud Edward, and by the help Of the wo-