Category: Travel Writing
The late--I had almost written the last--Imperial ruler of France was wont to say--indeed, it was his favourite maxim--"Everything comes to him who waits." It was not exactly true in his case. Just as he was to have placed himself at the head of his followers, and make his rea...
In my wanderings in the latter town I pick up the last edition of a useful and unpretending volume called "The History of Kintyre," by Mr. Peter M'Intosh--a useful citizen who c...
1. CHAPTER I.The late--I had almost written the last--Imperial ruler of France was wont to say--indeed, it was his favourite maxim--"Everything comes to him who waits." It was not exactly tr...
9. CHAPTER IX.As next morning I crossed the Clyde, and took my seat in a crowded and early train, it seemed to me that rain was not far off, and that at Edinburgh Royalty might be favoured wi...
6. CHAPTER VI.In rough weather it requires no little courage to make one's way in a steamer from Tobermory to Portree, the capital of the Isle of Skye. Our noble-hearted owner is very careful...
2. CHAPTER II.I shall never forget my first view of the Clyde from the heights above Greenock. It is true I had seen the Clyde before, but it was at Glasgow years ago, and it had left on my m...
4. CHAPTER IV.A couple of days' heavy rain quite exhausted the gaieties of Oban, and it was with no little pleasure that I heard the orders given to weigh the anchor and get up steam. I shed...
3. CHAPTER III.Taking advantage of a fine day, we left Ardrossan, with its coal and timber ships, early one Saturday, and were soon tossing up and down that troubled spot known as the Mull of...
7. CHAPTER VII.A fine day came at last, and we steered off from Portree, leaving the grand Cachullin Mountains, rising to a height of 3,220 feet, and the grave of Flora Macdonald, and the cave...
5. CHAPTER V.As I sit musing in the dining-saloon of the _Elena_, it occurs to me that a Scotchman is bound to be a better educated man than an Englishman; for these simple reasons--in the f...