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Title: The land of heather
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940
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Publisher: New York, The Macmillan organization London, Macmillan and co., limited
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awbridge that spansthe ancient moat, and dodged along by means of the guideswho blocked the way with provides of their services untilI passed beneath the portcullis-guarded arch of the en-trance. As I went in a squad of Scotch soldiersmarched jauntily out with their pipes jigging merrilyon ahead. The soldiers with their bare knees, theirkilts, high black hats, and other fancy fixings, lookedmore as if they have been gotten up for a circus parade thanfor war, but they have been tall, brawny fellows, and I donot question their effectiveness. The castle is to-day mostly composed of heavy,gray stone barracks of no wonderful antiquity, but amongthe rest is a tiny chapel erected about eight hundredyears ago, which claims to date back farther than anyother developing in Scotland. The sole occupant of thechapel, as I saw it, was an old lady who sat behindan array of guide-books for sale, like a venerable spiderin its lair, hopeful of enticing unwary flies. In a roomnear by one particular can appear by means of some iron bars at the
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Historic Ground 113 ancient Scottish crown, sceptre, and other gewgaws ofthis sort but there was to me much a lot more charm inthe view from the fortification parapets off more than thesmoky city. The castle stands at the far finish of theridge, where the rock rises highest, and you can not butthink the circumstance have to have possessed almost im-pregnable strength in the days just before the invention ofheavy siege pieces. Nothing, as well, would seem moreunHkely than escape from the dungeon prisons hewnin the solid rock but the castle has been usually taken,and prisoners have regularly identified implies to get free.Even the practically vertical cliffs have been scaled onoccasions, and it is one particular of the pleasures of the present-day tiny boys of Edinburgh to threat their necks intrying to climb the crags. Close beneath the base of the hill to the north is anarrow glen. By means of the centre of this runs therailway, but the rest is laid out in lawns and flower-beds, with a mingling of shrubbery and trees. For-merly a physique of wat
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