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arriving there the pedestrians of the party had one of 

 their grandest excursions, walking through beautiful 

 Glen Farg. They were overpowered at every turn by 

 its loveliness, and declared that there is nothing like it 

 out of Scotland. The ferns and the wild flowers, in all 

 their dewy freshness after the rains, made us all young 

 again, and the glen echoed our laughter and our songs. 

 The outlet from the glen into the rich Carse of Gowrie 

 gave us another surprise worthy of record. There is 

 nothing, I think, either in Britain or America, that is 

 equal in cultivation to the famous Carse of Gowrie. 

 They will be clever agriculturists who teach the farmers 

 of the Carse how to increase very greatly the harvest of 

 that portion of our good mother earth. Davie began to 

 see how it is that Scotland grows crops that England 

 cannot rival. Perthshire is a very beautiful county, 

 neither Highland nor Lowland, but occupying, as it 

 were, the golden mean between, and possessed of many 

 of the advantages of both. 



Perth, Saturday, July 29. 

 The view from the hill-top overlooking Perth is 

 superb. " Fair Perth indeed ! " we all exclaim. The 

 winding Tay, with one large sail-boat gliding on its 

 waters, the fertile plains beyond, and the bold crag at 

 the base of which the river sweeps down, arrested the 

 attention of our happy pedestrians and kept them long 

 upon the hill. I had never seen Perth before, and it was 

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