. Visits to remarkable places : old halls, battle fields, and scenes illustrative of striking passages in English history and poetry . THE GARDEN TERRACE. E. VISIT TO THE FIELD OF CULLODEN, There are few things more interesting than a visit to an oldbattle-field. The very circumstance impresses indelibly onyour mind the history connected with it. It awakes a morelively interest about the deeds done there, than the mere meet-ing with them in a book can. It kindles a curiosity about allthe persons and the events that once passed over it; and whenyou have inquired, the living knowledge which you
. Visits to remarkable places : old halls, battle fields, and scenes illustrative of striking passages in English history and poetry . THE GARDEN TERRACE. E. VISIT TO THE FIELD OF CULLODEN, There are few things more interesting than a visit to an oldbattle-field. The very circumstance impresses indelibly onyour mind the history connected with it. It awakes a morelively interest about the deeds done there, than the mere meet-ing with them in a book can. It kindles a curiosity about allthe persons and the events that once passed over it; and whenyou have inquired, the living knowledge which you have gainedof the place and its localities, fixes the facts for ever in yourmemories. e 2 52 VISIT TO THE FIELD OF CULLODEN. Besides that, old traditions linger about the field and itsvicinity, which in the excitement of the main transaction neverfound their way into the record. There are passages andglimpses of personages, that the historian did not learn, ordid not deign to place on his page, which have nevertheless avivid effect on the heart and the imagination of him whowanders and muses there in after time. You see, even longages afterwards, evid
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