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20 JOURNAL OF A TOUR IN SCOTLAND
appears to be of the early Tudor age; one
is in the viler stile of James the First, where
the windows are made in imitation of wood-
work. The ruins of what must have been
a magnificent fountain in the centre. A lake
near — such a one as Tarn Wadling. The
town decayed, dirty and dolorous ; only that
a burlesque imitation of the old fountain
called the Cross Well, has lately been erected.
We had broiled fresh salmon at breakfast, to
which the Wolf ^ took as kindly as if he had
been an Otter. 19 to Stirling : the whole
way from Edinburgh is thro' a fertile and
highly cultivated country. Thro' Falkirk —
a busy town, which has taken away the trade
of Linlithgow since the Great Canal (as it is
called) was cut to connect the Forth with the
Clyde. We pass'd under that canal by an
arch so dangerously low, that it might easily
prove fatal to a traveller on the outside of a
stage coach. A new road is making near
Stirling, for a short distance, with a bridge,
which is one of Mr Telford's works, and has
a huge circle over the single arch — the first
bridge which I have seen in this form :
' A travelling appellation which the Journalist obtained
upon the Continent for his exploits at breakfast^ diinierj
supper, and all supplementary meals.