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house is beautifully situated on a kind of peninsula, formed by a turn of 
the Clyde; and the garden is laid out in grassy terraces and flower-beds, 
very nicely kept. I was very much pleased with the double sweet- 
williams, which looked like little roses. The gardener here has raised a 
great number of seedlings, and he has obtained twelve varieties, so per¬ 
fectly distinct and so very beautiful, that I was quite delighted with them. 
I had no idea that sweet-williams could be so beautiful, and I mention 
them here to turn the attention of my readers to the subject, as I find 
the seed ripens freely, and the plants vary so much that no two in a large 
bed are alike. A pale pink with very double flowers took my fancy so 
much that I brought a specimen away to figure, but unfortunately it 
withered before anything could be done with it. 
In the house, which is admirably contrived and very convenient, we 
saw a descendant of the celebrated pepper-and-mustard terriers, named 
Spice, who, so far from partaking of the fiery spirit of his ancestors, suffered 
my little Agnes to take him in her arms without making the slightest 
resistance. We had intended visiting the Stonebyre Falls after leaving 
Milton Lockhart, but a most tremendous storm, during which the rain 
descended in torrents, made us glad to hasten on to Lanark. 
July 30th to August 1st.—- Corehouse .—As soon as we had breakfasted, 
we proceeded to Cortland Crags, but the ground was too slippery from 
the recent rains to allow us to descend to Wallace’s Cave. Indeed, it 
would require a stronger head than mine to pass at any time through such 
narrow paths, with stupendous rocks above and below, and a foaming river 
in the abyss beneath, seeming to yawn as though eager to engulf the 
victims which one false step would precipitate into it. From the Cortland 
Crags we proceeded to Lee, the residence of another family of the name of 
Lockhart. Here we saw some magnificent trees, and among others an 
oak, part of the original forest, 46ft. in circumference just below the 
branches; an enormous beech ; some larches, planted at the same time as 
those of Dunkeld, one of which was 12ft. in circumference at 4ft. from 
the ground, and 100ft. high ; and some remarkably fine spruce and silver 
firs. After having examined thesemagnificent trees, we proceeded to the 
house, where we saw the celebrated Lee penny, brought by an ancestor of Sir 
Norman from the Holy Land, where he had gone with DouglasTo convey 
the heart of Robert Bruce, and which has been immortalized by Sir 
Walter Scott in his tale of “ The Talisman.” It is a curious stone, looking 
like a dark red agate, clumsily set in silver and fixed on a shilling of 
Edward III. It is said to have been considered as a talisman, and to 
have been obtained as part of the ransom of a Saracen prince taken in 
battle. After a very fatiguing walk through the gardens and pleasure- 
