Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-08-01
LETTER FROM PARIS
First View Of the Irish Coast.
Wonderful Twilight on the Clyde.
Over the Scottish LOchs and Through
the TrOssachs.
The Beauties Of EdlnborO Compare
With Paris.
Poor, Beautiful Mary, Queen of
Sc0fs.
sne.ial correrpondence LEpars.
Pans, FEANcE, July Is, l8s2.

1AklSg FhANOEi July 10 1907,
On the morning of July 5, when the
early gray dawn was just beginning to
break, a delightful and most welcome
sound broke In upon our slumbers; it
was the CRY Of land land" The
long line OF gray way off on the hori-
IONS tarthest verge was most like a
dark cloud dimly defined, but as we
waited and watched, a~nxiously strain
ing our eyes for a better view, great
black cliffs began to loom up from the
water, and soon the beautiful coast Of
Northern Ireland &eme into full view.
1t is said that there is not such an
entrance in all Europe, and | can well
believe it. That beautiful day with
its long, lingering twilight, l shall
never forget. So still and quiet was
the water that the vessel which bore
us on seemed most like "a painted
ship upon a painted ocean" All
through the long, beautiful day we
sat upon the deck watching the irish
coast with its immense cliffs of gray
and black, its gigantic causeway, it's
scented hillsides and lovely Valleys
these last green with a greenness we
had never seen before or dreamed Of
The first view of Neville created q
decided futter. There We we're to
see the first landing place; there u
Irish passengers we're to be put off;
there we were TO get our first news
from the home we had left behind, A
little tug--Osprey-came steaming up
alongside us TO do its duty, the
transferring Of our Irish Travellers
to Neville. is Guiteau dead?
shouteda one .of our party 10
the man nearest 10 sight.
who is Guiteau 2" was the uhsat.
istactory response, but a paper thrown
on board later on contained a line or
two which put at rest all doubt.
To one going to northern Europe
for the first time, nothing is so mar
velously strange as the first long twi.
light. | sat on deck that night and
wrote a letter at half past ten O'clock.
with the exquisite soft gray light
all about me. Only think Of i'll We
know these things, of course our
children know them but it is impos
sible to realize the splendid effective
ness Of sunset cOlors in a midnight
sky until one has watched their brill
liant tints fade into darkness
That night we sailed up the
beautiful and historic Clyde. and
morning found us at Glasgow.
where after a fewIminutes' delay at the
Customhouse, we went to our hotel.
glad enough to leave tho ocean behind
us for the next three months. Glas.
gov is considered a busy aud thriving
city, except by Americans accustomed
TO the stir and noise and hustle OF our
great metropolis. | found nothing
OF special interest save the cathedral
and the metropolis. The cathedral is
one OF the finest examples of the early
English or moderated Gothic STYLE
of architecture. The vast length of
the vista formed by the nave and
choir, the lines of beautifully chs
tered columns and arches on each
hand, and the large and beautiful
window that casts its light down from
behind the choir, at the termination nj
the view, all contribute TO produce
upon the spectator an overpowerinp
impression OF solemnity and magnif.
cence.
Leaving Glasgow, the next points Of
interest were Loeb Lomond TocL
Katrine and the Trossachs. The lake,
are beautiful as a dream of heaven
They nestle in the heart of great blns
m~ountaiBs, whose heads are crownee
with wreaths of cloud and mist. Thu
dimness aud far-away-ness which
make the charm of our own Catskills
are here seen to absolute perfection
The mountains are so grandly mag
niicent, 81 majestic, so sublime, We
so reaching ~heavenward that enc al
most expects to see them float ava,
and ascend into the blue skies, An,
the lakesl What shall / say to civ
you an idea Of their perfect beauty
Refer you TO Water Scott, who's
LADY Of the Lake" has made then
historic. 1t is really touching to hea
even the common people speak of El
len Douglass aud her lovely homo o.
Ellen's Isle; aud they point it out t
the traveller with % much interest 9