Stories of persons and places in Europe . opsman who in fulltraveling costume, his kilt on, his plaid over his shoulder, his sandals onhis feet, and the blue bonnet on his head stands with his little son in hisarms just outside the door of his cot. His wife is busy preparing his bot-tles for the journey, his old father, bent and wrinkled, has come out andsat down by the door to see him off. A young woman, an unmarried sisterapparently, is wrapping a plaid about the old man to protect him from thesharp mountain air as he takes another look at the scene he has witnessedso often in his younger da
Stories of persons and places in Europe . opsman who in fulltraveling costume, his kilt on, his plaid over his shoulder, his sandals onhis feet, and the blue bonnet on his head stands with his little son in hisarms just outside the door of his cot. His wife is busy preparing his bot-tles for the journey, his old father, bent and wrinkled, has come out andsat down by the door to see him off. A young woman, an unmarried sisterapparently, is wrapping a plaid about the old man to protect him from thesharp mountain air as he takes another look at the scene he has witnessedso often in his younger days. Farther back another bonnie lassie is saying Scotland. 167 good-bye to a great strong laddie. All around are the cattle that havenot yet joined in the long line moving off toward the dark range of theScotch highlands in the distance. The Firth of Clyde.—The boundary between the Highlands and theLowlands, is marked by a second pair of arms extending into Scotlandfrom the sea; on the east the Firth of Forth, the highway to Edinburgh,. GLASGOW. the city of art and literature; on the west the Firth of Clyde leading toGlasgow, the city of trade and industry. The river Clyde, on which thisgreat city stands, was only a narrow shallow stream at the beginning of thepresent century, but as the manufactories sprang up and trade grew theriver was dredged until it can now admit large ships as far as the water fairly swarms with laden vessels, and with new ones justlaunched from the many dock-yards along its banks. More than a hundredlarge steamers can be counted in these yards at onetime, some showing only 168 Persons and Places in Europe. the frame work, like great skeletons, others all finished waiting to bepainted, others ready to be launched. And not only is the Clyde the birth-place of the great Cunard and othersteamers of modern times, but also of the first steamer ever used inEuropean waters. Five years after Fultons Clermont was completed in]Sew York, the Comet, bu
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