. Scottish pictures, drawn with pen and pencil . £:^: Colonel Gardiners Bothwell lived for a time before the surrender of the former at CarberryI nil. The country people say that the name Traprain Law was derivedfrom this capture, as it was thereabouts that /a reine was /rapped. Not abad illustration of the way in which etymologies are made! On the way to Edinburgh the leisurely traveller may turn aside toHaddington with its fine Gothic remains. The town is famous as JohnKnoxs birthplace; and the grave of Mrs. Carlyle will, to many visitors,invest the ruined abbey with a new and pat
. Scottish pictures, drawn with pen and pencil . £:^: Colonel Gardiners Bothwell lived for a time before the surrender of the former at CarberryI nil. The country people say that the name Traprain Law was derivedfrom this capture, as it was thereabouts that /a reine was /rapped. Not abad illustration of the way in which etymologies are made! On the way to Edinburgh the leisurely traveller may turn aside toHaddington with its fine Gothic remains. The town is famous as JohnKnoxs birthplace; and the grave of Mrs. Carlyle will, to many visitors,invest the ruined abbey with a new and pathetic interest. SCOTTISH PICTURES. Nearer Edinburgh is Preston Pans (the pans are for getting salt byevaporation), where Prince Charles Stuart defeated the Kings troopsunder Sir John Cope, on the 21st of September, 1745. It was chieflythis delusive gleam of success which encouraged the Young Pretenderto march southward, to his ruin ; but the chief interest of the scene toourselves is that Colonel fames Gardiner fell in the skirmish, for it was. MELROSI; AliUEY, FROM THE KlVER. little more. We give, on the preceding page, a sketch ol his monument,as it stands on the field. To this day the Life of Gardiner by remains one of the finest portraitures we possess of a tyjic ofcharacter very real, and hap|)ily not infrequent in our day—the brave andhumble-minded Christian soldier. And Sir Walter Scott, in Wavcrhy, hasdone more justice to this brave God-fearing man than to some other of hisPuritan heroes. ACROSS THE BORDER: APPROACH TO EDINBURGH. 13 Soon after leaving Preston Pans the train plunges into a tunnel, fromwhich it emerges in the ra\ine over which seem to tower, height beyondheight, the massive buildings of ICdiniscrcii. The a[)[)roach is curiouslyunlii<e that to any other city ; but we must not linger in the metropolis atpresent, for we have yet to glance at the other routes enumerated above,at least as rich in their personal and historical associations.
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