CASTLE KENNEDY 



WIGTOWNSHIRE 



[RAVELLERS to Ireland by Stranraer 

 and Larne begin to collect their minor 

 movables when the express rattles over 

 the lofty viaduct at Glenluce. Near 

 this point the line leaves the moorland 

 through which it runs almost continuously for forty 

 miles westward of Castle Douglas, and enters 

 upon a flat cultivated tract. Glimpses of the sea, 

 which at no distant geological period covered this 

 plain, may be had on either hand ; Loch Ryan 

 forming the northern, as Luce Bay the southern, 

 horizon. 



At the narrowest part of the isthmus between 

 these seas a liberal space has been devoted to 

 landscape gardening on a heroic scale. On the 

 right of the railway, three or four miles east of 

 Stranraer, the traveller may view the ample 

 demesne, or (to use the native phrase) the "policies" 

 of Castle Kennedy ; and, if he is master of his own 

 time, will do well to devote a morning to closer 

 inspection thereof. 



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