A university tramp . y were reached,and then through a beautiful and well kept country, withhere and there a busy town, and an elegant country homewith its parks and grounds. The railway is extremelycrooked ; we rushed past mills, and factories and ship-yards ; flew along in sight of the Clyde, upon whose waterwe saw many a craft, and a great ocean ship steamingtoward Glasgow. Soon Dumbarton Castle, built upon ahuge rock, which measures one mile around, and 560feet in height, appears in view, and the road turns sud-denly to the right, following the Leven to Loch simple minded peasan
A university tramp . y were reached,and then through a beautiful and well kept country, withhere and there a busy town, and an elegant country homewith its parks and grounds. The railway is extremelycrooked ; we rushed past mills, and factories and ship-yards ; flew along in sight of the Clyde, upon whose waterwe saw many a craft, and a great ocean ship steamingtoward Glasgow. Soon Dumbarton Castle, built upon ahuge rock, which measures one mile around, and 560feet in height, appears in view, and the road turns sud-denly to the right, following the Leven to Loch simple minded peasants will point out the huge rockand tell you in all sincerity, that Satan threw it at , and that it fell into the river where it now we leave the Clyde the ground becomes more brokenand hilly; the gentle ascents are covered with parks of treesand shrubs, and ruins of old stone houses, and stonefences covered with ivy. The sun shines bright andclear over all; the birds chirp and flit from shrub to tree;. — 23 — a gentle wind dallies with the leaves of lovely green,the whole, for miles, presenting a rare scene of continuedloveliness. Two old castles, not far apart, suddenlycome into view with their stone towers, and turrets, andbattlements, and ivy-grown sides. Scarcely have werealized the beauty of this scene, when the train stopsalong side the little steamer on Loch Lomond at are now at the entrance to the loveliness and roman-tic beauties of bonny Scotland. In this part ofScotland, the mountain lakes whose surfaces shine likeburnished sheets of living gold, and the heather cov-ered hills, and crystal streams and showery cascades,present a strange mixture of wildness and loveliness, andsweetness to be found nowhere else. We pass from the cars to the boat, and are soonmoving oft over the smooth water of the Lake. LochLomond is a long and comparatively narrow lake, beingabout twenty-six miles in length and about five miles inwidth at the widest place
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