LOCHLOMOND AND DUNBARTON 
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He reached Dunbarton by the west side of 
Lochlomond, and the entry in his journal with 
regard to it is as follows :— 
“After passing a restless night there I rose 
before eight o’clock and went out to look about 
me. The Rock of Dunbarton attracted my notice, 
and I proceeded to it without delay. A soldier 
accompanied me to its summit. . . . The Rock of 
Dunbarton is, I believe, far superior to those of 
Edinburgh, Stirling or Dunnottar as a place of 
defence, because unlike them it rises abruptly from 
the level plain. It is split into two at the summit, and 
in the cleft are built barracks. The works are trifling 
because the place requires very little assistance from 
art, being an almost complete natural fortress.” 
As he proceeded towards Glasgow, he says he 
found that “ unlike the huts at Loch Awe and Loch 
Leven, the abodes of the peasantry are neat and 
comfortable. Everything, in short, tends to impress 
the idea of civilisation.” 
On reaching Glasgow, he writes :— 
“ Steamboats appeared in abundance upon the 
Clyde to-day. The consideration of the effects of 
civilisation is truly amazing. The room in which I 
am sitting is lighted with gas, as are the streets and 
most of the houses of this city. ... I have been in 
Glasgow before, and have sailed up the Clyde from 
the mouth of Lochfyne in Argyll. Yet all that I 
have seen to-day bore the character of novelty—even 
the Rock of Dunbarton, and Glasgow itself.” 
After visiting the Botanical Garden, nothing 
else of interest remained to detain him in Glasgow, 
