132 SCOTLAND ILLUSTRATED. 



The induction of the illustrious statesman, Sir Robert Peel, to the same 

 distinguished honour, is an event too recent, and fresh in the memory of every 

 man, to require any notice in these pages. The occasion was most strongly 

 marked by all that could do honour to that accomplished scholar and senator, 

 and to the professors and students who had installed him in his high office of 

 Lord Rector in the Glasgow University. 



Omitting numerous objects and topics of great interest literary and scientific 

 institutions, museums, charitable foundations, national monuments, in all of 

 which Glasgow is peculiarly rich, but which our space will not even permit us 

 to name we proceed to notice those particular scenes of beauty, or wonder, 

 on which the painter has laid his hand in this picturesque province ; the 

 valley where 



" Clyde, foaming o'er his falls, tremendous roars, 

 And Mouse, through rugged rocks, his waters pours ; 

 Where Cleghorn, beauteous by a Lockhart's care, 

 Bares to the distant view her bosom fair ; 

 And Lee's recess whence many a chief of name, 

 Heroes and sages, moved in quest of fame." WILSON. 



The river Mouse, which traverses the parish of Lanark from east to west, 

 presents in its course much wild and romantic scenery. Near Cleghorn, it 

 plunges into a deep ravine, scooped out apparently during the long lapse of ages 

 by the impetuous rush of its waters. Lower down, and nearer its junction with 

 the Clyde, it makes a sudden bend, and pouring its waters into a deep chasm 

 in the hill of Cartlane, which forms its channel for about a mile, presents 

 throughout a succession of views peculiarly wild and imposing. Wherever the 

 cliffs press forward like jutting battlements on the one side, there is a correspond- 

 ing recession on the other ; so that the ravine appears to have been formed by 

 some sudden and awful disrupture, and if closed seems as if each projection and 

 depression would again enter into their original union. The north bank, piled 



During the first and second year of his rectorship, however, royal commissioners were employed in a 

 similar inspection, and with their proceedings he found it beyond his power to interfere. But so much 

 satisfaction had been diffused among the students by his known good intentions, that they resolved to 

 confer upon him the honour, unprecedented for a century, of electing him for a third year. To this 

 proceeding the professors objected, and, setting up Sir WALTER SCOTT as a candidate, gained over a large 

 body of the students; and, in fact, the nomination of Sir Walter was carried, by what the Campbelliies 

 considered an unfair election. A deputation of them, therefore, went off to Edinburgh, and waiting on 

 Sir Walter Scott, expressed themselves to that effect. This illustrious individual accordingly sent word to 

 the professors that he declined the proffered honour. Campbell immediately left London for Glasgow, 

 insisted on a new election, and carried it triumphantly. Such was the joy of the students on the occasion, 

 iliat they founded the " Campbell Club" in honour of the poet, which still continues. MS. 



