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I COME TO MY journey's END. I 5
CHAPTER II.
I COME TO MY journey's END.
On the forenoon of the second day, coming to the
top of a hill, I saw all the country fall away before me
down to the sea; and in the midst of this descent, on
a long ridge, the city of Edinburgh smoking like a
kiln. There was a flag upon the castle, and ships
moving or lying anchored in the firth; both of which,
for as far away as they were, I could distinguish
clearly; and both brought my country heart into my
mouth.
Presently after, I came by a house where a shepherd
lived, and got a rough direction for the neighbourhood
of Cramond; and so, from one to another, worked my
way to the westward of the capital by Colinton, till I
came out upon the Glasgow road. And there, to my
great pleasure and wonder, I beheld a regiment march-
ing to the fifes, every foot in time; an old red-faced
general on a grey horse at the one end, and at the
other the company of Grenadiers, with their Pope's-
hats. The pride of life seemed to mount into my brain
at the sight of the redcoats and the hearing of that
merry music.
A little farther on, and I was told I was in Cra-
mond parish, and began to substitute in my inquiries
the name of the house of Shaws. It was a word that