Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803   By: Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855)

This ebook was transcribed by Les Bowler.

RECOLLECTIONS OF A TOUR MADE IN SCOTLAND A.D. 1803

BY DOROTHY WORDSWORTH

Edited by J. C. Shairp

CONTENTS.

DAY PAGE

PREFACE ix

First Week.

1. Left Keswick—Grisdale—Mosedale—Hesket 1 Newmarket—Caldbeck Falls

2. Ross Castle—Carlisle—Hatfield—Longtown 2

3. Solway Moss—Enter Scotland—Springfield—Gretna 3 Green—Annan—Dumfries

4. Burns’s Grave 5

Ellisland—Vale of Nith 7

Brownhill 8

Poem to Burns’s Sons 10

5. Thornhill—Drumlanrig—River Nith 11

Turnpike House 12

Sportsman 13

Vale of Menock 14

Wanlockhead 15

Leadhills 18

Miners 19

Hopetoun mansion 20

Hostess 20

6. Road to Crawfordjohn 22

Douglas Mill 28

Clyde—Lanerk 31

Boniton Linn 33

Second Week.

7. Falls of the Clyde 35

Cartland Crags 40

Fall of Stonebyres—Trough of the Clyde 43

Hamilton 44

8. Hamilton House 45

Baroncleuch—Bothwell Castle 48

Glasgow 52

9. Bleaching ground (Glasgow Green) 53

Road to Dumbarton 55

10. Rocks and Castle of Dumbarton 58

Vale of Leven 62

Smollett’s Monument 63

Loch Achray 64

Luss 67

11. Islands of Loch Lomond 71

Road to Tarbet 75

The Cobbler 78

Tarbet 79

12. Left Tarbet for the Trossachs 81

Rob Roy’s Caves 82

Inversneyde Ferryhouse and Waterfall 83

Singular building 84

Loch Ketterine 86

Glengyle 88