. Scottish pictures, drawn with pen and pencil . ated in the Castle, which,as every one knows, surmounts a precipice fronting the plain of the Forth,the town being built upon the slopes behind. Vxom. the terraces of thisgrand rock the view is magnificent. Courteous guides will tell the visitorwhere Queen Mary stood to admire the prospect, or where Queen Victoriagazed upon the scene. Or, enticing you within, they will show the Douglasroom, and repeat the tradition of the murder foully wrought, pointing outalso memorials of John Knox, side by side with relics from Bannockburn—a singular combinat
. Scottish pictures, drawn with pen and pencil . ated in the Castle, which,as every one knows, surmounts a precipice fronting the plain of the Forth,the town being built upon the slopes behind. Vxom. the terraces of thisgrand rock the view is magnificent. Courteous guides will tell the visitorwhere Queen Mary stood to admire the prospect, or where Queen Victoriagazed upon the scene. Or, enticing you within, they will show the Douglasroom, and repeat the tradition of the murder foully wrought, pointing outalso memorials of John Knox, side by side with relics from Bannockburn—a singular combination ! Then for the sightseer there arc the quaint decora-tions of the Palace, and the Chapel Royal, now a store-room. But thechief attraction is still without, in the glorious open plain girded by itsamphitheatre of mountains. The windings of the Forth, partially seen frDinthe Rock, so fertilise the vale as to have given rise to the saying, The lairdship of the bonny Links of ForthIs better than an earldom in the North. I2S SCOTTISH •^^^m-M Appearing to rise almost sheer from the level in the distance, may be traced, in the west, the outlines of Ben Lomond, Ben Xenue, Ben Ledi, Ben Xoirlich, and of many lesser heights, while in the east the nearer and still more beautiful Ochill Hills close in the prospect. mr STIRLING: BRIDGE OF ALLAN. 129 The view is a fitting introduction to the mouiUaiii land. Of course we castour stone, metaphorically, at the unfortunate Wallace Monument, erected inthe baronial style—whatever that may be—upon a wooded crag twomiles off, an outlying spur of the Ochills that had formerly been one of themost charming features of the scene. We are told for our comfort thatthe structure is 220 feet high, and that if we please we can ascend it for
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