. Scottish pictures, drawn with pen and pencil . th sexes. THE TAY BRIDGE. 169 itself. The time for seaside holidays had scarcely arrived, or we could havewondered at the fewness of visitors to a i)lace which must surely be one ofthe most healthful and bracing resorts in (Ireat Britain. The dry pure airwas delightfully in\ igorating, ami the view over the German Ocean in thebright summer weather was magnificent. Possibly a visitors impressionmight have been different in other aspects of the sea and sky ; and, like oureastern shores generally, St. .drews may be subject to the visitation ofbitte
. Scottish pictures, drawn with pen and pencil . th sexes. THE TAY BRIDGE. 169 itself. The time for seaside holidays had scarcely arrived, or we could havewondered at the fewness of visitors to a i)lace which must surely be one ofthe most healthful and bracing resorts in (Ireat Britain. The dry pure airwas delightfully in\ igorating, ami the view over the German Ocean in thebright summer weather was magnificent. Possibly a visitors impressionmight have been different in other aspects of the sea and sky ; and, like oureastern shores generally, St. .drews may be subject to the visitation ofbitter east winds and driving mists, when the weather on tht- western coastsis clear and bright. Thus the balance assuredly is not entirely againstthe West. brom .St. Andrews to Dundee, by the Tay Bridge, was but a brief overthrow of that structure in the terrific storm of December 28, 1879,will be fresh in the memory of my readers. In the preceding summer we hadcrossed it, and, like many a passenger, had noted how frail it seemed. \et the. The Tay Bridge, trior to December 28, 1879. assurances of its safety appeared decisive, until the crisis came. The presentstructure, also on a long range of piers, if less wonderful than the Forth Bridge,is noble and imposing, and appears likely to stand against all such fury ofwind and sea as destroyed its predecessor. Our illustration represents theearlier bridge. Dundee itself is apt to disappoint the visitor,—very much,perhajis, because he has .so often heard the city called bonnie this is not exactly the epithet one would choose for the greatcommercial port. As the yotirnal already quoted tersely puts the matter, Dundee is a very large place, and the port is large and open ; the situationof the town is very fine, but the town itself is not so. No doubt the viewsup and down the Tay are imposing; but we suspect that the bonnie isfrom the old Jacobite songs, and means not this cit\- at all, but ViscountDundee, better
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