The Picture of Scotland - 1 Author:Robert Chambers Volume: 1 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1828 Original Publisher: William Tait Subjects: History / Europe / Great Britain Poetry / General Travel / Europe / Great Britain Travel / Europe / Ireland Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be ... more »typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: What beauties does Flora disclose ! How sweet are her smile upon Tweed Crawford. Thk great strath of Tweed and its accessory glens, comprehending four counties, form by far the most interesting portion of Scotland, in respect of poetical, if not also of historical association. This delightful region, which has been from time immemorial the subject and the birth-place of song, and almost every foot of which may be termed classic ground, is indeed the very Arcadia of Scotland. It is the land of Learmont and Thomson, of Leyden and Scott. The Vale of Tweed, forming the south-eastern limit of the kingdom, comprises the greater part of the district called the Border, so justly celebrated for the martial character of its people. Ever forming, in the language of their most illustrious minstrel, "the first wave of the torrent" poured by our sovereigns into England, and kept perpetually in arms by the corresponding aggressions of their enemies, the inhabitants of this district necessarily exhibited in former times all the features of chivalry. The country, at this latter day, conPOETICAL CHARACTER. 17 tains innumerable relics of military antiquities ; and, the times of war having been here as elsewhere succeeded by " piping times of peace," it abounds no less in the remains of a romantic description of poetry, commemorating the marvellous events and deeds of noble daring, peculiar to that period of warlike glory. Two centuries of domestic tran...« less