Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-07-25
FIRST EDITION.
THE SCOTTISH CAPITAL.

HE bAEbtAk
TIoNs OF THE TRIP-BaInsH RAILWAYS THE
CASTLE AID HoLYRooD--A WALK UP THE GAM
oReArE-THE HAuETs OF sooTr AND BURNS
Dir. JOHNSON AND RoswELL-A PLEASANT RE
oEPTIoN.
From Me Commercials Special Correspondent.
On THE SoHELDT, 7th mo. 10th.
Upon our return from Stirling we were DOM
iciled Immediately. put out our washing, and had
it In, again, by the next evening arose early
the next morning, and met by appointment, in
Princes Street Park, with all the party, to be
photographed. Sun and weather being favora-
BILE, we were soon transferred to paper with the
castle hill for background, and II the artist
comes to reaeonable terma, we are all going to
order q copy While in the park, we were made
glad by a warm Wilmingtonian greeting from
friends who had reached hdi burgh few weeks
before and who were as enthusiastic as ourselves
in their admiration of its beauties and interests
We we're pleaned to see them looking 30 WE'LL
so fresh and bright the invigoratingair and the
happy surrounding. have had q very faVorabls'
effect upon their health
Bat that Unsuitable Cook calls and we have to
leave. He has an uncomfortable and never
satisfied desire to " move OH" and like Fenny-
sons brock. " goes on forever" whirling lis
along with him, till castles. rocks, churches
museums, pictures, and rufus spin before In au
tomRton style, and change places Ike kaleldo-
rcnpic figures, ever recurring, Tut always in new
relations. Ii, when we are through we preserve
one distinct recollection of any place, we Will be
fortunate. For myself, expect for the rest of
my lite, to be rushing frOma ruined abbey to a
fortress or a city, and back again, at the tate OF
fifty miles an hour in box cJAch cked "a.
Ihe train stops now aud then a station, and
the place looks thriving perhaps We see thS
black smoke from furnace or forgei a hlgn wall
NAV enclose lovely gardens; an Uncovered ruin
IN a the hill. mt conductor ever comes
round to scream out the name of the plaoe.o to
permit himself to be questioned. The guido
books tell everything but just what you want to
know, and that is great deal when you are fast
IN, and are riding through rich country for the
fret time.
II is no wonder they can run their trains so
fast they never have to stop for crossings Tor
the railroads either tunnel the carriage ways OF
are carried over them 30 that nobody or thing ls
ever on the track.
All the banks, on either side Of the railroad
are cultivated as flower or vegetable gardens, aud
no cattle ever being allowed there, they need no
enclosing. other than the one which separates
the road from the farms.
Who tell all Of the sights OF EdinburghF
The Castle. aud Hollywood Palace. teemihg as
they do with associations OF Mary StuarL, Rizzo,
James, and all the names of Scottish history and
| song, are not mo thnllingly interesting than
walk (not a ride) up the Canongate, with agarru-
| lUus guide, who must know something too, III
order to be of use, The spot where the old TOT
1
/ meDt, recalls immediately the nsme and scenes
of SCOTS story, as we'll as the ancient name of
| the country.
Down little alley-a ''wynd" they call it
Il you find diugy. tall old house where Burns was
made a Royal Arch Mason, and where little
| imagination ran yet hear the echoes OF "adieu a
heart-warm, fond adieu," as he met there with
| the brothers Of the mystic tie for the last
| time before leaving his native land.
Then passing into a 'close'-a court yard, eur
| rounded by buildings, and with only one narrow
means Of ingress aLd egress-you see the tiled
| roofs and steep pointed windows OF the OLD
| White Horse Tavern" connected with 30 many
| incidents in the lives Of Johnson and "Bozzy,"
| The house is old, aud in tumble-down eohdl-
tion, butt IL it could only be preserved as ii ls,
without further decay, it would be shame to
modsfnze 1t by repairs.
TLe house of Johu Knox looks just as it does
IN the PICTURES; indeed 30 does every place; we
found We were walking among photographs aud
eDgravngs that we have been familiar with from
chIldh0od, and had TO pinch ourselves to know II
we we're not pictures, too, like all the rest.
| A brisk drive in the afternoon rCuld Arthur .
| Seat and salisbury Craigs, gave us view OF
I pTeston-pAns in the distances and made us pity
! the false hopes it gave to poor Prince Cparley.
| The Hunters Bag 's shown where Ellie Deans
| came down alone ut night, from her father .
| cottage close beside the Qleen's drive and the
lands OF the Laird o Dumbiedikes' and Crale
| Muller are in view. NJ wonder the people
| rair ed monument to Scott, and made 1t tue
| most beautiful piece of Gothic architecture III
| the city ne has made tue whole region, In enc
sense -he has given it history aud soul.
A magui6cent statue of Sir Walter is seat c
in the vide open arch of the monument, and the
expression is 70 llte like and sweet that you Zee
like talking to him, and envyth familiar ,olrd'
| who have learned to feel no fear and settle OF
his hands and head and tRitter langudly to him
The Burns monument on the sI1e of Gator
| Hill ID tne, but contalns no statue only mar
| bic urn: bu we saw several line pictures o
, | Burns
The High School OF Edinburgh is close by
| where the Prince of Wales was educated AMI
whose Rector, DR.. Donaldson. gave us such
hearty aud noble welcome at the Conversations
, IN the evening at the Hall OF Natursl Sciences
where we had All enthusiastic reception, gn
land music on bagpipes, Scotch songs .gop'
speeches. curiosities, aud promenading. Ever.
place We went we were objects of polite curlosl
~ and attention. which made us fsel OF som
Importance, doubtless above our deserts, =,