The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-08-07

The City OF Richmond, OF the same line
was being fitted out here, and will ssi
on her first voyage TO New York in
sbout a week. For fifteen and twenty
miles around the city sre numerous
iron works. About twelve miles from
the city are number OF blast furnaces
four OF which are now being operated
under new plan for utilizing soft coal
for smelling purposes-calied the self,
coking blast furnace. Here we met two
gentlemen from Ironton, Ohio, who had
been fellow voyagers with US on the
City of Brooklyn, who had thoroughly
examined this process, and were well
satisfied with its operations. They were
getting plans and specifications drawn
for the purpose OF erecting one st Iroa-
ton. If the selfcoking blast furnace
is success, it will be one step gained
in the tedious, laborious, and expensive
production OF iron.
There is little OF interest to be seen in
Glasgow that cannot be seen in any
other city OF her size. Her enterprise
and busy spirit is what commands the
admiration OF an American as ne wit
nesses the streets crowded with vehicles
laden with merchandise, and the pro-
ducts Of her numerous manufactures.
The country around Glasgow is
beautiful and we'll cultivated, the
surplus products OF the farmer
finding a ready market in the city.
The only place Of any historic interest
is the Cathedral, the largest and finest
ecclesiastical structure in Scotland,
built about the year 100 and used
several hundred years as Catholic,
then ss sn Episcopal and is now used as
Presbyterian church. 1t is built OF
solid cut stone and is of the pure Goth.
ic style OF architecture. Immediately
in the rear OF the Cathedral aud par.
TALLY surrounding it is the old Necrop-
oils, the finest cemetery in the city,
which rises in terraces in the back
ground and contains some very beauti-
ful monuments, the most conspicuous
OF which is that erected 10 John Knox,
the great reformer. This monument is
on the highest elevation OF the grounds,
and the statue placed on the top of q
fine Doric column, Of him whom Scot. g.
land delights to honor, looks down up.
on the tombs OF many OF the great who
are buried around it. The Necropolis
viewed from the Cathedral yard, pre-
sents a most grand and imposing ap>
pesrance, and with it's trees, gravel
walks, shrubbery and flowers, looks
more like magnificent garden than a
resting place for the dead.
From Glasgow We took passage for
Edinburgh. via Loeb Lomond, and
the Trosschs. After sail OF twenty
five miles on the Lake, we crossed
the mountains to Loeb Katrire, elias.
sic little lake, on and around which the
scene Of Sir Walter SCOTS Lady ot
the Lake is laid. It's water is so clear
and its surface 80 smooth that the re-
Elections cast by the hills and noun
tains along its shore are as perfect a.
the original, presenting every tint and
outline 30 perfect that after viewing il
constantly for some minutes you be.
come bewildered and cansot distinguish
the substance from the shadow
the shadow being inverted being
the only means by which you
can distinguish. Where stone walls
bound its edges and vegetation is grow
ing thereon, the eye cannot discern the
line where the substance ends and the
shadow begins. 1t is perfect mirror
rejecting true image OF any object lake
casting shadow upon it. Glasgow is
snpplied with water brought from this
lake through tunnels. aqueducts and
reservoirs a distance OF thirty-iour
miles. The supply is equal to twenty
million gallons daily and is noted for
its freshnss and rurity. Sailing down
this mirror lake IN the little propeller
Rob Roy" viewing its beauty and sur
rounding stiffness, we listen in vain for
blast from the horn OF RoIerick
Dhu TO break the Stiffness OF its sur
rouudings.
where was RoderIck then,
One blast upon his bugle horn were worth "A
thousand men,
But we saw and heard nothing
of Roderick except his name on
the end Of the coach that brought US
to the lake. At the foot OF Loch
Kstrine we took q coach for ride
through the Trosschs, but that mex
orsble Scotch mist began to fall and
had enveloped every thing in obscurity.
The Trosachs, which means bristled
territory, is the finest scenery in the
highlands OF Scotland, and on clear
day would present very fine appear
snce, but they were robbed OF much oi
their beauty on the day OF our passage
through them by the MET All fog that
enshrouded them. Edinburgh, the capi.
tai Of Scotland, and the modern Athens.
is the most grand and picturesque Of
all the cities we have seen. 1t is less
place o. manufacturing activity than
the majority Of modern cities, and the
expression OF repose which it creates,
suggests ideas OF culture rather than
rough-vissged rough handed, industrial
life. With its schools Of art aud semi-
naries Of learning, at the top Of
which ranks the University which for
its medical faculty especially, is Of
more than European fame, and with
the cultivated society which these in
yolye and attract, there are few cities
which offer equal advantages for stimu-
IatiDg the intellect, educating the taste
and enlarging the heart.
Edinburgh lie not commercial city.
1t is Inhabited principally by persons
who have smassed sufficient ofthis
worlds goods, and have retired here TO
enjoy quiet and to afford their children
the opportunities OF education and re-
fned society. With castle, tower,
church spire and pyramid, rising into
sunlight out oi garden spaces and belts
OF foliage, and throned On crags, Edin-