An illustrated and descriptive guide to the great railways of England and their connections with the Continent (1885) (14758204674)

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Title: An illustrated and descriptive guide to the great railways of England and their connections with the Continent

Year: 1885 (1880s)

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Subjects: Railroads -- Great Britain Europe -- Guidebooks England -- Guidebooks

Publisher: (London) : Morton & Co.

Contributing Library: University of California Libraries

Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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few relics associated with his career. Themonument to Sir Walter Scott is another of the chief objects of interest inthe city. It cost ;!^ 15,000, is 200 feet high, and a staircase ascends withinits masonry to a gallery a few feet from the top, from whence a birds-eye \iewof the city may be enjoyed. Nor should the House of John Knox be leftunvisited. It stands in the Nether Bow, High Street, and is open on Wed-nesdays and Saturdays from ten till four. Admission sixpence. Hard by isSt. Giless Cathedral, where the great Reformer preached. One of the peculiarities of Scottish character comes out conspicuously atEdinburgh. Few peoples are so passionately attached to their family asso-ciations as the Scotch ; in no point does this manifest itself with greater pro-minence than in connection with life assurance. In Edinburgh are the head-(luarters of some of the leading societies. The architecture of the city owesmuch to the buildings erected by them—notably in St. Andrews Square. 99 i^/p

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THE CLYDE. The Clyde, though regarded as the third river in Scotland, is the first incommercial importance. Taking its rise in the mountains of the SouthHighlands, some 1,400 feet above the sea, and at no great distance fromthe sources of the Tweed and the Annan, it finds its onward downward way,receiving in its course many a tributary stream, until near Carstairs it nearlydoubles its volume by uniting with the Douglas Water from the HoughshawHills. Between this point and Lanark, in its descent from the tableland onits upper course, about 650 feet high, it forms three principal and severalminor falls, celebrated for their beauty. The upper fall is Bonnington Lynn,two miles from Lanark; it may be approached by a romantic path through FALLS OF rwrcLYDr

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