Identifier: storiesofpersons00bene (find matches)
Title: Stories of persons and places in Europe
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Benedict, E. L. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York, London, G. Routledge and sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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VIEWS IN BELFAST : PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE. METHODIST COLLEGE. QUEENS BRIDGE. CHAPTER VII. SCOTLAND. Scotland is the land of poetry and romance. It is also a land of wildglens, rugged mountains, blue haze and purple heather, all beautiful andcharming, but their chief charm lies in the glamor of romance that has beenthrown around them by story-tellers. Each loch, glen, and cave echoes withthe tales of Highland Chief and Lowland warrior told by poet and minstrelfrom the days of Ossian, bard of Morven, to those of the great Magicianof the North and the sweet singer of Bonnie Doon. The Great Glen.—Many pointed bays cut the coast of Scotland intojagged fragments ; the four larger ones making great inroads into the land.Between the two northernmost, Murray Firth on the east and Firth ofLorn on the west, runs a great natural gap, which looks as if some giganticTitan had split the mountains apart. A large part of this gap is the bed ofLoch Ness and a few smaller lakes, and the hand of man has

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