CARTLAND CRAGS AND WALLACE'S CAVE.

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Cartland Crags and Wallace's Cave form a romantic scene on the Mouse Water, about a mile north-west from Lanark. The stream flows through a deep chasm, apparently formed by an earthquake, instead of following what seems a much more natural channel a little further to the south. The rocks on the north side rise to a height of nearly 400 feet. About 30 years ago a bridge was thrown across this ravine, consisting of three arches 128 feet in height. A short distance beneath is a narrow old bridge supposed to be of Roman origin. On the north side of the stream, a few yards above the new bridge is the cave termed "Wallace's Cave," which is pointed out by tradition as the hiding-place of that hero after he had slain Haselrig the English sheriff.

Jerviswood, the ancient seat of the illustrious patriot, who was murdered under the forms of law during the reign of Charles II., is about a mile and a half northward from Lanark, on the south side of the Mouse. The attainder of Jerviswood was reversed by the Convention Parliament at the Revolution. On the opposite bank of the stream, situated in the midst of extensive plantations, is Cleghorn, the seat of Allan Elliot Lockhart, Esq., M.P.

Lee House, the seat of Sir Norman Macdonald Lockhart, Bart., is about three miles north-west of Lanark, situated on a picturesque valley north of the Clyde. It has been modernized in the castellated style, and contains a good collection of pictures. Here is kept the famous Lee Penny, the use made of which by Sir Walter Scott in his novel of "The Talisman," may be familiar to the reader.

The tourist may proceed from Lanark to Edinburgh, Glasgow, or Carlisle, by Caledonian Railway.

GLASGOW-AYR-AND THE LAND OF BURNS.

By the Glasgow and Ayrshire Railway. The station-house at Glasgow is on the west side of Bridge Street, Tradeston, and very near the "Broomielaw Bridge."

On leaving Glasgow the tourist passes an immense number of cotton and silk manufactories, iron works, and other establishments of a similar kind, together with a succession of elegant villas, belonging to the wealthy merchants and manufacturers connected with the

city. About half way between Glasgow and Paisley the ruins of Crookston Castle are to be seen on an eminence overhanging the south bank of the White Cart. This castle was at one time the property of the Stewarts of Lennox, and here Queen Mary resided, when receiving the addresses of Darnley. It is now the property of Sir John Maxwell of Pollock.

Seven miles from Glasgow is the large manufacturing town of

PAISLEY,

[7 miles from Glasgow, and 33 from Ayr. Population, 47,419. Returns one member to Parliament. Inns: The Saracen's Head; Commercial]

a place of great antiquity, which owes its first existence to a religious establishment founded, about the year 1160, by Walter Stewart, the ancestor of the royal family of Scotland. The Abbey Church, dedicated to St. James and St. Miren, is an interesting object of antiquity. The chancel, used as a parish church, remains entire, along with the window of the northern transept. Attached to the south side is a small but lofty chapel, possessing a remarkably fine echo, and containing a tomb, surmounted by a recumbent female figure, usually supposed to represent Marjory, daughter of Robert Bruce, and wife of Walter Stewart, founder of the Abbey. This lady, the mother of Robert II., first of the Stewart line, was killed by a fall from her horse, at a place in the neighbourhood of Paisley. The town of Paisley suffered severely at the Reformation, and its immense revenues became the prey of several of the nobility. The buildings connected with the abbey are the property of the Marquis of Abercorn, the representative of Claud Hamilton, the last abbot, and first temporal superior of Paisley, referred to in Sir Walter Scott's ballad of Cadyow castle, as

"Stern Claud

Grey Paisley's haughty lord."

It was not until the close of the last century that Paisley assumed any importance as a manufacturing town. Its original manufactures were coarse checked linen cloth, and checked linen handkerchiefs, and these were succeeded by fabrics of a lighter and more fanciful kind. About the year 1760 the manufacture of gauze was introduced in imitation of the manufactures of Spitalfields, and the experiment met with such success, that the immense variety of elegant and richly ornamented fabrics that were issued from the place surpassed all competition. The gauze trade now employs but few hands, shawls of silk and cotton, plaids, scarfs, chenile, and Canton crape shawls

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and handkerchiefs, silks, and Persian velvets, being at present the staple manufacture of the town.

A short distance from Paisley we pass on the left the straggling village of Elderslie, famous for an oak in which, according to tradition, Sir William Wallace, the "Knight of Elderslie," concealed himself from the English troops. Elderslie House, which stands at a short distance, seems to have been erected subsequently to the time of Wallace. About three miles from Paisley, situated on the banks of the Black Cart river, is JOHNSTONE, a thriving seat of the cotton manufacture (pop. 7007). In the vicinity of the town are Milliken House, the seat of Sir W. M. Napier, Bart., and Houston House (Mrs. Cunningham). A short way further on is the village of Kilbarchan (pop. 2467). The ancient superiors of this village were the Sempills of Beltrees, a family in which poetical talent was long hereditary. Sir James Sempill, ambassador to England in 1599, wrote the satire of "The Packman and the Priest." His son, Robert Sempill, was the author of the poem entitled "The Life and Death of the Piper of Kilbarchan." Francis, the son of this poet, wrote the wellknown songs, "Maggie Lauder," and "She rose and loot me in." A few years ago, a statue of Habbie Simpson, the piper above mentioned, was affixed to the steeple of the Town-Hall. About two miles after leaving the Cochranemill Station, the line is carried through a rich strath of agreeable appearance. On the right are the extensive and highly ornamented pleasure-grounds of Castle Semple, the seat of Colonel Harvey, and on the left (above the public road to Beith) the ruins of Elliston Tower, formerly the seat of the Sempill family.

The tourist now reaches Lochwinnoch village [Inns: The Black Bull; The Wheat Sheaf-15 miles from Glasgow], situated on the side of Castle Semple Loch, near the bottom of a range of hills. At a short distance to the west are Barr Castle, supposed to have been built in the fifteenth century, and Barr House (W. Macdowell, Esq.) Castle Semple Loch is about a mile in length, and contains three wooded islets, on one of which are the remains of an ancient fortalice.

About 18 miles from Glasgow is Beith, in the vicinity of which are the ruins of Giffen Castle, formerly a stronghold of the Montgomerie family; while further on, near the river Garnock, are the remains of the ancient castle of Glengarnock, the property of the Earl of Glasgow. The village of Kilbirnie is situated on the sheet of water called Kilbirnie Loch, which is about two miles in length, and half a mile in breadth.

Two and a half miles from here, and 22 from Glasgow, is the