Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1874-08-28

| plague of taking care of baggage is even
greater than Americans would suppose;
because these old fogies are so slow in
adopting Improvements, as never to have
come into the system of using baggage
checks Indeed it has appeared to us,
that in respect to railroad arrangements,
they are far behind our country.
Mr. Cook took us to Glasgow, where we
were somewhat surprised to find n rapidly
growing city, second only to London, in
the British Empire; it was not atogcth-
er 50 gratifying to know that the great
prosperity of the ship-building operations
is, in part, at the expense Of America.
Then we passed through the lovely
scenery of the Scottish Highlands and
Lakes, made 50 familiar by the genius
of the great Magician of the North, even
his most enthusiastic admirers find that
he has not painted these scenes in too
brilliant hues.
We sailed among the picturesque is
lands, lying west of Scotland, looking
too rocky and barren for any useful pro-
duction, yet supporting many thousands
of sheep, that find their winter as their
summer sustenance in the open ground,
(they are prepared for winter by being
dipped in u gummy fluid y we visited
sacred Iona, and wonderous Staifa, more
impressive than any description has made
it; climbed Ben Nevis, (some three or
four of us, only y steamed through the
Caledonia canal and chain Of lakes that
carry us to the east coast, II truly magni-
ficent work, but strangely neglected by
commerce.
From Inverness to Edinburg was an
interesting days journey, and the last
named city is just too beautiful for the
people that live there. We liked the
Scotch people very much-found them
intelligent, honest, religious aad re-
markably polite. 1t is no fault of theirs
that the girls are not so handsome as
ours in Montgomery. Why there is more
beauty in certain Grange in our county
than | saw in all Scotland yet, doubt
less, there is mony bonnie lassie there.
if one had the fancy of Burns to see them
so.
Pardon this undignfed depression.
We entered England, and received
there many evidences of the good feeling
which our British cousins desire to cul-
tivate with the people of our country -
On two occasions, once at Leicesta and
the other at the Crystal Palace, near
London, we were Toasted and speechiiied.
| will spare you the contribution from
Montgomery, as the reporter COT the
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full than in America, in conveying the
IDEAS of the speaker.
have been more impressed with the
perfection of the agriculture of Belgium,
than that of any other State or Country.
From Antwerp to Brussels, and thence
to the confines Of Germany, the whole
aspect Of the country was rather that OF
"a garden than farm Such wheat | am
sure | never saw before; but that crop
seems abundant, this year, throughout
Western Europe. We feared that the
lively French nation might get up rev
olution, and thus interrupt our progress,
but their papers say, " Bread will be
plentiful--no revolution this year"
/ will not run the risk Of making my
letter too long, by an attempt to describe
the scenery Of the Rhine. 1t is not SUI
perior TO that of the Hudson, nor inferior
to tit is simply too unlike for compar-
ison, but it is highly interesting.
Entering Germany, we are struck with
change in the.looks and manners Of the
people. At every important station and
crossing on the railroads, stands the sol
der, with musket to his side, motionless
as the Roman sentinel of buried Pompcii.
The tone Of voice is more imperious we
are among "the lords Of human kind. "
where Emperor William is almost deificd,
and Bismarck is name to conjure by.
Well, po,cer wiU be respected, and l'o~-
er is here.
have said nothing of the Cathcdrals,
the Galleries Of Painting, aud tie ruined
Castles Even on the Rhine, | found
myself turning with satisfaction from the
.castled rock" to look at the swift NOV
ing, long trains Of cars on the railroads
that run along either bank.
The New is gaining on and replacing
the Old. Better, far better for the world
it is 50? We, Of America, belong to the
New, and Il belongs 10 US.
w. II. L.