A Tour in Tartan-Land, by Cuthbert Bede (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. TARTAS-LAND. The Border Town of Berwiek-upon-Tweed ? Rival Races- Mixed Lineage ? Chopping and Changing ? Over the Border ? Edinburgh? Linlithgow? Castle Cary? The Scotch 'Blacl Country' ? Glasgow ? Porters ? A Cannie Scot ? The Southroi outdone ? The Queen's Hotel. approach to Scottish ground through the JL barrier-town of Berwick-upon-Tweed predisp us to favourable impressions of the Lowland seen The river itself, wide and winding, is spanned by longest railway bridge in the United Kingdom, connects ' The beautiful banks of the Tweed, ' England and Scotland, by an iron link of civilisat: The viaduct crosses the river at a curve, and sweeps the battlemented walls and ruined ramparts of this frontier town. From the railway we see the long E row bridge that spans the Tweed's waters, with its fifti arches doubled in the clear stream. Close upon i right we see the town with its confused mass of bui ings, from which rises a solitary spire ? but it ii secular spire, and does not belong to the church, wh was built by Cromwell, who was no friend to sue! sign of episcopacy as a tapering spire. The port crowded with shipping, the river flows merrily on the German Ocean, and the town stands pleasantly BERWICK-UPON-TWEED. 2: a gentle seaward slope?so pleasantly and conveniently situated, indeed, that it is no wonder that? Dane, Pict, and Saxon, Their homes turned their backs on, to try their luck at winning so pretty a property. A true Berwick-upon-Tweed man must surely be a descendant of the two rival races, and in his own person represent the union of the two kingdoms. The town was so banded about between the two countries, the English and the Scotch element alternately being in the ascendant, that when at last it was left to shift for itself, and to s...