Identifier: notesinenglandit00hawt (find matches)
Title: Notes in England and Italy
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Hawthorne, Sophia Peabody, 1809-1871
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Publisher: New York : G. P. Putnam & son London : S. Low & Co.
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
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t is seen on the right. He was born close bythat spot, and wrote pretty poetry about the riverLeven, which winds along the valley. On Levens banks wlien fiee to rove,And tune tlie rural pipe to love, &c. At Balloch—no, we first passed through Alexan-dria and Bonhill, and then Balloch, and there I wasdelighted with a very graceful suspension bridgeover the soft river (the meaning of Leven). ItAvas built by Sir John Colquhoun, of Luss. At Bal-loch we embarked and were afloat on Loch Lomond,queen of Scottish lakes, thirty-two miles long. Cas-tles and stately mansions, many of thein full of his-torical and poetical interest, rose up on every side.Cameron House, where Alexander Smollett, a de-scendant of the novelist, resides, and Arden, in whichis the original portrait of Rob Boy. I wisli I couldhave seen the old feudal fortress of Bannachra,where the Colquhouns lived, with whom the Mac-gregors had deadly strife and won the victory, andslew two hundred Colquhouns. Now a large island
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Loan LOMOND AND THE BENS. 1G5 seemed nearly to cross the lake. It was beautifullygreen, of a bright sunny green, and contrasted won-derfully with the dark mountains above and beyond.Its name is Inch Murrain (Inch means island). It isthe deer-park of the Duke of Montrose. On oneend are the ruins of a castle of the Earls of Lenox.Near by, on the mainland, is a mansion whereWalter Scott often visited. It is Eoss Priorj^, theresidence of Lady Leith Buchanan. In that houseSir Walter wrote the romance of Eob Eo)-! Thencomes a sharply-pointed hill, call Duucruin—hill ofwitches—famous in legends ; and Balmaha, the fa-mous pass mentioned in the Jjudj of the Lake, isa little way inland— So fierce, so tameless, and so fleet,Sore did lie cumber our retreat,And kept our sternest kerus in aweEven at the pass of Balmaha— Another lovely island now comes in sight round acurve, called Inch Cailliach (Isle of Women), wherewas once a nunnery, and where very ancient gravesof chiefs are found. Five

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