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[ED: Softcover], [PU: Cambridge Scholars Publishing], 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 II. DEPARTURE FROM LOCH FYNE BUTE THE CUMBBAYS AND CLYDE DUMBARTON?INN OF BALLOCK?THE ALBUM?LOCH LOMOND CHARACTER OF ITS BEAUTY ? ROWANDENNAN THE STOUT GENTLEMAN?BEN LOMOND EXPANSIVE VIEW DESCENT AND DINNER. Early, on a fine September morning, the yacht got under-weigh, and, with a spanking breeze, we soon ran the Highland mansion out of sight, where we had experienced so much kindness and hospitality. As the wind was westerly, and the Clyde our destination, we closed the point of Lamont, and entered " the Kyles," preferring this passage to rounding the southern extremity at Garrock Head. Nothing can be more picturesque than the island and sound of Bute. Its scenery is beautiful and diversified and the surface combines, in singular variety, savage grandeur with " green fertility." Bute has attained an enviable celebrity and, to scenic charms it unites aclimate of remarkable salubrity. Two places on the island particularly attract the traveller's attention?the mansion of the noble proprietor, and the cottage of Edmund Kean. To the retirement of this "lonely isle" the great artist intended to have stolen from the world and, secluded from the giddy crowd, have ended here a life which had experienced every vicissitude of those changeful fortunes, to which genius, from its first struggle to its final triumph, is so generally exposed. At noon we issued from the Kyles, leaving, some miles astern, the Cumbrays, which seem, at a little distance, in Scott's words, to " Close the fair entrance of the Clyde." The situation of these " fair islands" is very interesting, and their scenic effect equally romantic. Of their white lighthouse and ruined tower, many a sketch has been made by the passing voyager. The latter stands boldly on a cliff which overha...Versandfertig in 6-10 Tagen, [SC: 0.00]<

ISBN: 9780217308328

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