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pg 19 for their family resemblance. We drove back to lunch and came past Scott's monument. Prince's street is a fine street but I don't agree with Baedecker about its being the most beautiful city in Europe. Certainly it is charming ! After lunch we bought wooly things as Scotland is icy & then went to the picture gallery, which though small, is excellent. Gainsboroughs Mrs. Graham, some good Raeburns, Leuback's, Bismarks & a lovely room full of Maris', Manves, Corots, Danbignys,& Israels & a Van Dyck which was very devilish! The original model in wax for the Medici tombs are there too. The next morning (Wednesday July 10th) we left Edinburgh about 9:30, passed through Luilithgow, where Mary Queen of Scots was born & Earl ? was assassinated, & reached Stirling about 11, where we were greeted by shouts of many children clamouring for pennies. The Castle is beautifully situated and has a splendid view of Ben Nevis, Ben Lonoud, Loch Lomond, to which we didn't get as it was raining. The Douglas room where James II stabbed Earl Douglas, was filled chiefly with souvenirs but there were several thing in it worth while. John Knox's pulpit & Communion table, an old Drum of the Black Watch, and the old crown of the Scottish Kings. We lunched at Callendar & went afterward by Loch Lubnaig to Killin. and to Blair Atholl for the (This is the end of the narrative. There is a photo of a fence and some evergreen tree by a lake and another of the car parked by a small hill. |