. More famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . period. Similarly furnished is the State Drawing-room. It has a ceil-ing of delicate pale blue, cream, and peach-pink tints, with shut-ters to match ; the tapestry shows children, goats, and dogs,with flower-borderings; and over the mantelpiece is a more im-posing portrait of Lady Charlotte than the one before this room the fifth Duke entertained Dr. Johnson, and Boswellmade himself obnoxious to the Duchess of Hamilton andArgyll. Upstairs there will be found a lovely view from the Queensturret-room window. Immediately below fl
. More famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . period. Similarly furnished is the State Drawing-room. It has a ceil-ing of delicate pale blue, cream, and peach-pink tints, with shut-ters to match ; the tapestry shows children, goats, and dogs,with flower-borderings; and over the mantelpiece is a more im-posing portrait of Lady Charlotte than the one before this room the fifth Duke entertained Dr. Johnson, and Boswellmade himself obnoxious to the Duchess of Hamilton andArgyll. Upstairs there will be found a lovely view from the Queensturret-room window. Immediately below flows the river ; on itsfarther bank is some level ground, with a mound having rather anartificial, crannoge-like appearance — the land around it probablyonce being under water : this is the knowe, the spot used forratifying clan-covenants, the burghs gibbet, and the point ofdeparture for every Fiery Cross despatched up the glen formuster of MacCaileans clansmen. In front is the loch ; andthen, rising above the slopes of its opposite shore, those snowy. 325 126 Hiivcraravi caps — Ben Ime, Stob-an-eas, Strone-Fyne — perpetually meet theeye whenever it turns eastward. But the individuality of Inveraray is rather in its woods thanmountains. Pray pay some attention to the trees ; they deserve it. Close to the Castle,in the Ladys Linn, is aparticularly fine Scotchfir — girth, at five feetfrom the ground (1898),13 feet 10 inches, height125 feet — still in itsprime; near it, but acrossFrews Bridge, is a Doug-las, planted by PrinceLeopold, in 1875, and asilver, planted by theQueen about the samedate. A remarkable fea-ture about the silvers,besides their massivetrunks, is the fact thatthey never get raggedat the top. Additionalleaders, according to wont, of course they will throw up; buteven so, they seem almost to feather up to a point. At a dis-tance it is hard to distinguish these trees from the spruces, whichattain almost similar magnitude — the soil being just suited toth
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