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the style of Queen Elizabeth’s time; these streets are 
very broad, and crowded with people, like Cornhill: 
in other parts of the town are a great number of su- 
perb modern houses. The Green, which is between 
the town and the Clyde, is very delightful; it is about 
two miles long and half a mile broad, and planted 
with very large trees: here the women wash their 
linen in the open air, having fires in small iron 
stoves. On Wednesday evening we went in the 
diligence to Dumbarton, where is a castle built on 
a very singular rock, from which is a view down the 
river worthy of Italy; yet this is called “a barren 
land without a tree”! From hence we took a chaise 
to Luss, fourteen miles, through a sweet country 
on the shore of Loch Lomond; rode by the pillar 
in memory of Smollet. Loch Lomond is full of 
beautiful islands ; but though its borders be clothed 
with wood and ornamented with towns and gentle- 
men’s seats, yet there is not that picturesque variety 
about it which the lakes of Cumberland afford. 
Mr.Stewart, minister of Luss, was the companion 
of Mr. Pennant in one of his tours. 1 became ac- 
quainted with him at Edinburgh, where he was 
made an honorary member of our society on my 
nomination: he is a first-rate naturalist, and remark- 
able for his modesty and simplicity of manners. On 
Friday he accompanied us to Ben Lomond: we took 
a boat, and sailed across the lake, five miles ; the 
weather was fine, and it was a most delightful voyage; 
a fine eagle was soaring above our heads. After 
landing we began to ascend the mountain, whose 
top is full five miles from the shore of the lake, and 
