Seven Lectures on the United Kingdom for use in India: Reissued for use in the United KingdomMackinder, Halford John
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Seven Lectures on the United Kingdom for use in India: Reissued for use in the United Kingdom
Mackinder, Halford John
Great Britain
Let us now go on to Scotland. In part it is a lake country like
the North of England, but on a rather larger scale. Here is Loch
Lomond, one of the most famous of the Scottish lakes. The word loch
is Scottish for lake. The Scottish people used in many parts to talk
a language of their own, but, like the Welsh, most of them now talk
English, and form, with the English, a single people, loyal to one
king.
[Sidenote: 34. Ben Venue.]
Here are a few more views in the same country. This is Ben Venue--the
word Ben in Scottish means “mount.” We note in this slide the same
combination of beautiful mountain forms, water, green foliage, little
islands with green trees upon them, and houses hidden away in the
nooks. It is a wild and yet a soft and inhabited country. It is loved
by the Scottish people, whose great writers have written tales and
poems about it. You know that it is the poetry and the songs and the
legends of a race which make a nation proud. Scotchmen working in
many a distant land, remember the time of their childhood when they
lived among these scenes, and far away they still read the books
which tell of them.
[Sidenote: 35. Killiecrankie.]
[Sidenote: 36. Loch Katrine.]
Here is the Pass of Killiecrankie, famous in history for a battle of
a hundred and sixty years ago--one of the last battles fought within
the British Isles. And here, lastly, is Loch Katrine, with a steamer
conveying tourists to enjoy the scenery. Loch Katrine is close to
the manufacturing district of Scotland, where is Glasgow, a city of
a million inhabitants. Now great cities have great wants, and one of
the wants--most costly to supply but essential to health--is pure
water. The water of Loch Katrine, deep and clear, gathered from the
mountains, is carried underground through a tunnel pierced by man
to supply the great city of Glasgow. Wherever you go in the British
Islands you will find within a few miles of one another the silent
beauties of Nature, and teeming, noisy homes of millions of people,
for the land is but a small one, and is crowded with inhabitants.
[Sidenote: 37. Giants’ Causeway.]
[Sidenote: 38. Basalt--near view.]
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