Identifier: lettersfromforei00eccl (find matches)
Title: Letters from foreign lands
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Eccles, R. G. (Robert Gibson), 1848-1934
Subjects: History of Medicine Physicians
Publisher: St. Louis, Mo. : Medical Fortnightly
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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T he passes throughmiles of gorse and heather-covered bog,resplendent in the beauty of solid massesof bright pink and golden yellow blossoms. Crossing to Scotland, by way of Stran-raer, he passes through the romantic countrymade famous by Burns poems, visits, ifhe chooses, the many places described inthese poems, takes a look at Loudon Castlewhere the representatives of the kingdomsof England and Scotland signed the agree-ment that gave birth to the British Empire,and then proceeds on his way to Greenockand Glasgow. On the Clyde River he seesmiles of ship-yards in which are beingbuilt hundreds of monster ships destinedto constitute the future navies and mer-chant vessels of every country in the world.Proceeding to the world-renowned Tros-sacks he sees in turn the home of Rob Roy
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109 Ellens Isle, and the scene of the conflictbetween Fitz James and Rhoderic Dhu, allso beautifully described by Sir Walter Scott.On reaching Oban he takes a steamer forIona, by way of Staffa. At Staffa he seesFingals Cave the only large cave of itskind in all the earth. Like the GiantsCauseway it is a mimicry of human effort,but on a colossal and, therefore, unhumanscale. It is one of the greatest naturalwonders of our planet. Far into the massof the apparently chiselled columns thesurging sea has cut its way and left acavern with fluted sides like some immensecathedral. Staffa and Iona belong- to theHebrides Islands, and are therefore part ofthe Ultima Thule of the ancient world.They are but a few miles apart. Iona wasfor ages known as The Holy Isle1 to allof Europe. To it came the sick and thesinful from remote regions to gain theconsolations of religion and get cured oftheir ailments. Of it so great an authoras Dr. Johnson wrote that, That man islittle to be envied whose patrioti

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