The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-07-29
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guard" whose uniform has remained
unchanged since the institution of the
corps by Henry VII, shortly after the
battle of Bosworth.
This is not all, but | must finish.
Our tour has been grand and we have
had the pleasure of visiting most all
the palaces, galleries and museums
worth seeing in Europe. Have had
very good hotels, train service has
been commendable and everywhere
we have met kind and generous PEG.
pie, and all feel that their money has
been well spent. | soon hasten on to
Glasgow and Edinburgh, where ] meet
my second party.
Wishing citizens of Norfolk good
know will be fine
Charles Wayne Ray.
Melrose, Scotland, July 2.-After a
few days of rest and sightseeing alone
awaited the steamship Furnesia's ar.
rival at Glasgow, which came on time
June rs. 1t was a cold, rainy day and
] had to meet the ship two miles from
my hotel at I a. M. but | was there
to find my new party. Having previ-
ously received a special pass to go on
board before the passengers went
ashore, | fastened to the upper deck,
where | soon found twenty.one people
anXiously looking for me. They were
all well and ready for sightseeing.
We visited the beautiful public build.
ings and palaces of Glasgow and then
arranged to tour through the Tros.
sachs of Scotland The Calenodian
Railway company gave us a special
car and in this delightful manner we
left the famous shipbuilding city of
Glasgow.
Our whole journey was over his.
| toric ground. We passed Linlithgow,
where Queen Mary was born and
where Regent Moray was shot, then
| traversed the battlefield of Falkirk,
where Wallace suffered his great de.
feat and Sir John the Graham was
slain. At Callander we left the train
and took Highland coach with four
horses, and from this time on the
scenery was most charming. The hills
tower up one above another and the
lakes intervene to keep these hoard
headed personages from still keeping
up the religious and political battles
of the past.
We passed under Ben Ledi, followed
by Fitziames at the beginning of THE
Lady of the Lake" Farther on we
passed the Loeb Vennachar, immor-
talized by the combat with Roderick
Dhu. The carriage road winds round
the bosky shores of the lovely Loeb
AChray" to the TroSsachs hotel. which
! has been called the most significant
monument to Sir Walter Scott. the
great novelist.
Beyond this lies the wooded wind.
! ing pass of the Trossachs themselves,
| between Ben A'an on the right and
Ben Nenne on the left. AS we coached
along the mountain roads, winding,
| climbing, crossing and leaping above
each other, we came to the narrow
waters of Loeb Katrine, and here is
| beauty undescribed, for this long mar
row lake looks like a silver thread
amidst the green grass and flowers
Near this on Ben Venue is the COLLINS
cave, which years ago held many a
! stolen herd, and higher still is the pass
over which the stolen cattle were driv.
/ en-.
| AT TroSsachS pier we took the Sir
Walter Scott steamer and sailed over
the lake to the city of Stronachlachar
a splendid town on the lake. Here
took another mountain coach and
drove to lnversnaid. The charms OF
this landscape are most delightful
Nearby is the grave of Rob Roy, the
noted chief, and farther on is the gar
rison once commanded by Wolf, the
| conquerer of Quebec.
AS we passed along the highway we
saw and heard the native Scot stand
ing by the roadside playing his bag
pipe for us. This was quaint, weird
and inspiring.
AS we came down the hillside we
entered the city of Inversnaid on the
shore of Loeb Lomond, thes poets far
famed lake of magnificence and beau
ty. Here under Ben Lomond in the
rocks of Craig Royston is Rob Roy's
cave and prison where he persuaded
his captives by many souses in the
loch.
From lnversnaid we went by steam
sr across Loeb Lomond, twenty.fouI
miles long, and on cur passage we
passed several islands, such as Wal
lace's Isle and Ellen's Isle, besides
many smaller ones. 1t is on the west
ern shore of the loch tragedy is com
memorated in the name of Glen Fruin
the Glen of Sorrow for here it was
in the year 1900 the Colquhouns were
decimated by the Macgregors, an ex
plot which, on the parade of sixty
bloody shirts by Colquhoun widows
before King James, cost the Macgreg
ors land and name. The Macgregors
shOrt.liyed triumph is well described
by Scott in the Lady of the Lake.
From the steamer we saw ruins of ole
Boturich castle. After our delightful
VOYAGE across Loeb IOmOnd we land