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Chronicles of the Canongate, Saint Valentine's Day or the Fair Maid of Perth
Chronicles of the Canongate Saint Valentine's Day or the Fair Maid of Perth Author:Walter Scott General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1832 Original Publisher: Baudry's Foreign Library Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com wher... more »e you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: SAINT VALENTINE'S DAY; OR. THE FAIR MAID OF PERTH. CHAPTER I, " BelioH the Tiber," the vain Roman cried, Viewing the ample Tay from Baiglie's side; But where's the Scot that would the vaunt repay, And hail the puny Tiher for the Tay? Anonymous. Among all the provinces in Scotland, if an intelligent stranger were asked to describe the most varied and the most beautiful, it is probable he would name the county of Perth. A native also of any other district of Caledonia, though his partialities might lead him to prefer his native county in the first instance, would certainly class that of Perth in the second, and thus give its inhabitants a fair right to plead that -- prejudice apart -- Perthshire forms the fairest portion of the northern kingdom. It is long since Lady Mary Wor, tley Montague, with that excellent taste which characterises her writings, expressed her opinion that the most interesting district of every country, and that which exhibits the varied beauties of natural scenery in greatest perfection, is thatwhere the mountains sink down upon the champaign, or more level land. The most picturesque, if not the highest hills, are also to be found in the county of Perth. The rivers find their way out of the mountainous region by the wildest leaps, and through the most romantic passes connecting the Highlands with the Lowlands. Above, the vegetation of a happier climate and soil, is mingled with the magnificent characteristics of mountain scenery, and woods, groves., and thickets in profusion, clothe the base of the hills, ascend up the ravine...« less