The daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1889-1890, 1889-08-07
In similar letters another tablet tells
who John Morvo, Morrow or Murdoch
WIS as follows:

In similar letters another tablet tells
who Iohn Morvo, Morrow or Murdoch
was as follows:
"John :MorrOw Some Tyne CANT
,vuS. I.and Born: in ParSarcc ccftWnlT
audhad in: Keeping all: Mason: Work
Of. Sautarn : DruvS YE HIVE Kirk 0f
GLaspu: Metros and Paisley of: N.yd-
IcstiavH: and of: Glasgow: |: Pray: to
God and: Mary bath: and: Sweet st.
Tohn . Keep 4: this Holy Kirk Fac:
SKAITH."
Near by we kncel upon the old kneeling
stone of some sainted man and look at
the horseshoes with which even then he
thought to bauish evil spirits, and we
obeyed his Injunction to Pray for the
soul OF Peter the Treasurer, and ais"
stand upon slab covering one OF our
own ancestors, which is inscribed Ill
"Memoire of guild dame Margaret
Kerr"
The marvellous carving and tracery i'll
stone which we see still preserving itS
fresh beauty all around us, fills us with
admiration, almost we had SAID awe
MI of it is of such exquisite delicacy and
endless variety.
Growing one of the columns at a
nelHnL SttlN w 'hoNi'tN NiN'A
il. appears a most graceful feminine hand,
holding bunch of flowers worthy their
holder. We were struck with the dift-
Guilty we had in finding this, even with
our puide's assistance, and then with the
fascination it had for us when once our
eve became educated to seek it out from
among it's surrounding beauties. Wcdid
not wonder that Sir Walter Scott had !.
reDroduced to ornament his residence.
Nor is it only the delicacy of its traccrie@
which we note with wonder, but the stu
ucndous magnitude of the work. a por'
tion of the roof, which still stands, Is
composed of slabs of stone which VIC est
innate to he Mt least ten inches i'll thick
ness and several feet i'll length. while Jut'
ting out from its lower edge is well pre-
served an image in stone of The Pig and
the Bagpipe," which. we suppose
showed the estimate put upon the ma
tiOnaI instrument by the old fathers, that
It's strains were Identical with the sqeal
ing of a pig, in which opinion we concur
HIGH up in the tranScpt we are startled
to see suspended two weighty stones
treateninp us with destruction. But thu
same cords which held them first vii
continue to do so; and besides, remem
ber they are quite modern, being th'
weights that propel the clock, PLACED
there only some 400 years ago and still
faithfully warning men of the inevitable
lapse of time. 49,,
An hour is as much as we can give tm
old abbey, so we cannot do more thai
glance at its wonderful Trifurium or pass
age in the body of it's massive wall
round which the choir boys used t.
march, their sweet chanting reaching tn
open air as they encompass the numer
Gus windows. This is hard to explain
and marvellous to behold.
And now we drive over a perfectly eX
uuisite road along the pc ccful banks q
the Tweed and arrive at AbbOttsiurd
the home of the Wizard of Scotland. TIL
situation and surroundings of the man
sion disappoint us, being very low AN
,disagreeably damp. But all regret is rt
moved upon entering and viewing III
immense number of relics of inestimabl
value with which the great author sul
rounded himself and made his arduou
ilabors Joyous. We have no idea OF givin
YOU dry catalogue of these, but mercl
mention a few which most pleased us.
The study, first entered, is our bct
ideal of such a room, to Which the SIT
dent descended by a balcony and stan
from his chamber. In it are his chairan
small desk, the latter made OF the WOO
of the Armada, and handsomely inlan
chair, made of the wood of RobroystoI
or the house in which Wallace was b