Kings & rulers > More leaves from the journal of a life in the Highlands from 1862 to 1882

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Visit to
Floors and the Scotch Border Country,
August 20, 1867.
Tuesday, August 20, 1867.
At ten o’clock I left Windsor (those night departures
are always sad) with Louise, Leopold, and Baby (Bea¬
trice); Lenchen, Christian, and their little baby boy
meeting us at the station. Jane Churchill, Harriet
Phipps, the two governesses, Sir Thomas Biddulph,
Lord Charles Fitz-Roy, Colonel G. Gordon, Mr. Duck¬
worth, and'Dr. Jenner were in attendance. I had been
much annoyed to hear just before dinner that our
saloon carriage could not go under some tunnel or
arch beyond Carlisle, and that I must get out and
change carriages there.
Wednesday, August 21.
The railway carriage swung a good deal, and it
was very hot, so that I did not get much sleep. At
half-past seven I was woke up to dress and hurry out
at Carlisle, which we did at a quarter to eight. Here
in the station we had some breakfast, and waited an
hour till our carriage was taken off and another put on
(which they have since found out was quite unneces-