St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-10-03
ND II
IMPERIAL


-Edinburgh and its interesting sight.
... IMPERIAL HOTEL, f-..-..
EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND, July, 1879.
THE CITY OF GLASGOW.
From Glasgow we made delightful
excursion round by the way of Loch
Lomond, Loch Katrine, the Trosachs
and Stirling, to Edinburgh. We first
took time for an inspection of Glasgow,
which is a much more beautiful city
than the stranger first suspects. The
sail up the Clyde is charming but the
latter part of the trip is along a dirty
and not pleasantly oderiferous river
front. The business thoroughfares,
however, are neat and bear an air of
thrift and wealth, while the city boasts
of "West End" which will vie with
the "West End" of any British city ex-
cept London's in point of taste, ele-
gance and substantial luxury. 1t has
two spacious parks at opposite extrem-
tiles of the city. The Cathedral is a
very ancient edifce and noble speci-
men of Gothic architecture, while its
stained-glass windows are among the
finest in the world. Near the Cathe-
dral is the Metropolis, burial ground
occupying slightly hill which fairly
bristles with monuments, statues and
conspicuous memorials of departed
greatness and worth. DR.. Dick, DIR.
Black, Motherwell the poet, Michael
Scott, and many other Glasgow men
distinguished in the world of science
and literature or as learned theologians
are buried here. Upon the summit of
the hill is fine monument to John
Knox the sturdy Reformer. Glasgow
University which has developed some
of the worlds greatest philosophers,
comprises magnificent pile of build
ings which occupies noble site in the
beautiful West End Park.
LOCH LOMOND.
The excursion around from Glasgow
to Edinburg through Lochs Lomond
and Katrine and the Trosachs may be
easily made in day if the traveller is
pressed for time, although there are
many nOoks which invite the loiterer.
The transition is pleasant one from
the smoke begrimed city to the fresh,
green fields and forests of the country
and there is most delicious freshness
and depth of color peculiar to Scot
tish rural landscapes. At Balloch,
some twenty miles from Glasgow, we
are ushered into our first view of Loeb
Lomond, and we there embarked on
a comfortable little steamer. The lake
| is twenty-three miles long and some
five wide in its broadcast part, and is
environed by mountains, the highest of
which is Ben Lomond whose proud
head cleaves the clouds 3192 feet above
the sea. We look out upon the beauti-
full stretch of water, dotted here and
there with gracefully shaped islands
and hemmed in by romantic crags and
peaks, and fancy ourselves at Lake
George, or Lake Winnepesaukee, but
the mansions along the shore dispel the.
illusion. They are not bit American
in appearance being of stone, while
some grim castle takes the place of
great flaring and glaring hotel. In the
Old World they build strong and for
posterity, and the farmers cottage
seems substantial enough to outlast
dozen generations. There are several
little hamlets along either shore, and
dozen OF more mansions where the
lordly and wealthy proprietors of this
fair country spend their summers. We
leave the steamer at Inversnaid, twenty
miles up the lake, and go across the
country to StrOnachlacher, at the head
of Loeb Katrine, five miles distant,
in great cumbrous vehicles called
"brakes." This ride carries one into
the very heart of Rob Roy's old stamp
ing-ground, and the driver will point
out the very cabin where Helen Mac
gregor was born. Rob Roy's home was
near Stronachlacher. .. ....
LoCH KATRINE. -
Walter Scott has enriched this whole
neighborhood by the exuberance of
his poetic fancy, and especially the
mountains and glens around lovely
Loch Katrine, as we'll as the lake itself.
''The Lady of the Lake" is almost as
good guide-book through this region
as Blacks; and Scott's glowing lines
fittingly describe the scenery of to-day
as well as the picture it presented to
Fitz James enchanted vision. Loeb
Katrine is not one third the size of
Loch Lomond, but its shores are wilder