Trip to Hawthornden & Rosslyn
1891. Scotland.
Sept. 7
(No 2)
Edinburgh. - half-a-mile or more through a
beautiful part with trees, shrubbery & lawns on
both sides of the well-kept driveway.
  Pausing a little while at the house to examine
some curious caves in the rocky bluff on which
it was built we entered a foot-path which
led up the course of a small, rapid river
walled in between ridges about 200 ft. in height
the sides of which were everywhere densely
wooded where they did not rise, as was
often the case, in vertical walls of bare rock.
Anything wilder or more picturesque than
this ravine would be different to find in
any part of America. The woods which
everywhere filled it were evidently perfectly 
natural and many of the trees were of
great size. I noticed oaks, Scotch pines,
Sycamore maples, and mountain ashes besides
hawthorns and hollies, but by far the finest
as well as most numerously represented were
the beeches. In many places these completely
overarched the narrow river whose deep
pools and rippling shallows were scarce
touched by the sunbeams even at noonday.
  The walk through this glen is fully
two miles in length and the path was
as rough and muddy as that which we
one usually finds leading to some little frequented 
cascade or view among the woods of
our New England mountains.
  Of birds I saw several Knights and Tits.