. Letters from Europe to the children; Uncle John upon his travels. LETTER FIFTEENTH. a walk by a river. Dear Boys and Girls:t)gr\Q^jS I have written to you in former let-ters about things in England, Franceand Italy, it may be well to writeone that shall tell you something ofwhat I have seen in Scotland; these four whichI have named being the countries I have visited,chiefly, while abroad. So I am going to writeto you about A Walk by a River. The river is a very small one. In fact, it canscarcely, with propriety, be called a river at is more like what the Scotch people call, Ibelieve,
. Letters from Europe to the children; Uncle John upon his travels. LETTER FIFTEENTH. a walk by a river. Dear Boys and Girls:t)gr\Q^jS I have written to you in former let-ters about things in England, Franceand Italy, it may be well to writeone that shall tell you something ofwhat I have seen in Scotland; these four whichI have named being the countries I have visited,chiefly, while abroad. So I am going to writeto you about A Walk by a River. The river is a very small one. In fact, it canscarcely, with propriety, be called a river at is more like what the Scotch people call, Ibelieve, a burn, or brook. And as it is a burn full of little rapids and waterfalls, a A WALK BT A RIVER. 163 still more suitable name, at least in this part ofit, would be a linn, which means a name of the stream is the Eske, but theparticular locality I am to describe is calledRoslin; I suppose because linn meaning awaterfall, and ross a promontory or cliff, andas this little stream, or succession of rapids andcascades, runs between high cliffs, in somepla
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