. Scottish pictures, drawn with pen and pencil . Out at sea the Bass Rock is grandly in sight, and those who havevisited it describe the excursion as very pleasant. The enormous flight of ACAOSS THE BORDER: NORTH HER WICK. II sea-birds when disturbed by visitors or by the firing of a jrun, is trulywonderful. The ruins of Tantallon Castle occupy a rocky promontory nearlyoi)i)osite, at a short distance from the pretty sea-bathing resort of NorthBerwick. Apparently corresponding to the Bass Rock are the inland craggyhills peculiar to this district, and termed Laius. North Berwick Law isone of the
. Scottish pictures, drawn with pen and pencil . Out at sea the Bass Rock is grandly in sight, and those who havevisited it describe the excursion as very pleasant. The enormous flight of ACAOSS THE BORDER: NORTH HER WICK. II sea-birds when disturbed by visitors or by the firing of a jrun, is trulywonderful. The ruins of Tantallon Castle occupy a rocky promontory nearlyoi)i)osite, at a short distance from the pretty sea-bathing resort of NorthBerwick. Apparently corresponding to the Bass Rock are the inland craggyhills peculiar to this district, and termed Laius. North Berwick Law isone of the most commanding of these heights. Traprain Law is another,near Linton Station, inland, and not far from Hailes Castle, where Ahu-y and. ^;^>:a^ak.\>4 V^ ^j;rt.£:^: 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 fel
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