. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . at the base of a wooded hill thePalace of Scone which was long a royalresidence. In an abbey connected withthis palace there once was preservedwith great care and pride what wasknown as the Stone of Destiny. Uponit the Scots Kings were crowned until itwas carried away to Westminster by Ed-ward I. when that monarch had Scotlandtemporarily under his heel. The stone isnow the base of the coronation chair usedby the British monarchs. The value re- manded by King Kenneth III. Up to alate date it w
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . at the base of a wooded hill thePalace of Scone which was long a royalresidence. In an abbey connected withthis palace there once was preservedwith great care and pride what wasknown as the Stone of Destiny. Uponit the Scots Kings were crowned until itwas carried away to Westminster by Ed-ward I. when that monarch had Scotlandtemporarily under his heel. The stone isnow the base of the coronation chair usedby the British monarchs. The value re- manded by King Kenneth III. Up to alate date it was common for farmersplowing in Luhcarty meadows to turnup spear heads and pieces of other war-like weapons. But modern historiansthrow doubt upon the whole story. WhenI read their expressions of unbelief I feellike Byron when he wrote: Ive stood upon Achilles tomb And heard Tay doubted:Time will doubt of Rome. Following the valley of the Tay wesoon reach the mountains with the townsof Dunkeld and Bimam as the first gate-way, the carrier point between Lowlandsand Highlands. Above Bimam is a other city outside of Edinburgh; but itsuffered so much from the ravages of warand of spoilers, lay and clerical, that fewantequarian objects remain within its pfe-cincts. Its beautiful location on the nobleriver Tay and the wooded hills aroundit, could not be destroyed by wanton icon-oclasts, and so the place still deserves itsold loving name of Bonnie St. JohnstownTo merely the historical eventsof which Perth was the scene, from 1200,when it became the seat of the Parlia-ment, courts of justice and royal residence,until 1745, when the army of PrmceCharlie, the last of the Stewart princes,took possession of the place, would initself make a long story. Probably mostof my American readers will associate theplace most familiarly with Scotts FairMaid of Perth. Pulling out from a remarkably hand-some station, in a train of cars hauled bythe ten-wheel engine shown, we follow HIG
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