Show NOTES OF TRAVEL IN SCOTLAND RY will 0 vernal utah nov 27 1891 editor thinking perhaps your readers reader a would be in interested teres ted in learn learning ing of the bea beauties u ties of 0 other lands and the sights one sees abroad I 1 venture to introduce to their notice bonnie scotland and in doing so go I 1 will commence with ayre shire the home of the famous poet burns the town of ayr stands on the bunks of the beautiful river ayr and is 88 miles souta west of edinburg just two miles south of the town stands the little ittle A white costage with its straw thatched roof in which wits was born the great poet burns the cottage can be inspected for the suni sum of 0 6 d or 12 cents the rooms are kept clean and neat and the furniture is said baid to be the same an me as when occupied by 13 the parents of tile the poet the chairs are very old und and tied fied tog together ther with st to keep keel all them ill from fi falling alling down i stands islands the ruins of alloway kirk the ene of of the fiend revelry in burns tarn tam burnt burn pj poems enis it is jj small rootless ro with a belliel ery lU pr side of it U ill ii which i the grave of burns fitt luther lier liams chiun s monument stands opposite t the le jb it war built in at a cost of i U 1 1 is IB 50 feet high 0 and i is by a ein ill well kept gaa g deij containing in a greao life sized statues of tarn OSha titer cr and Suter Buter Johnnie of scottish fame their greatest accomplish we tit seems to have been in iii drinking barley bree or as we would say beer two bridges span the river doon boon in the neighborhood of the monument one of them thein is th Auld brig which figures bo 0 prominently in tarn tain flight the banks of the doon are here very beautiful and are burus burns banks and in aa 09 0 bonnie doon boon May maylone lole is a small tofu Vuth west of ayr Is where B burae urns when abaury took to drink and unsteady habits here is an old burying ground containing the grave of tarn tam 01 0 blip lor whose real name wa doulass douglass graham tarbolton Tar Tue bolton is aniles north east of and the 5 seven ven A ayr wap wa t L cepal center oj of emen events ts it the poet burns burn 1 life ife 1 inci lies amid iian numerous berous scones and a nd objects which figure ineil in his s writings loch lee farm where he resided raided 8 several 0 1 11 years W with avith ilis his father is where lie wrote a nuro br bor of his ns most popular poems r j 1 an n 01 old d anil enill 1 ne nc an aej 1 1 a qiric qi rii fer r anilo orth cat ry x 4 V si f t e fuei l 1 ya x i y 1 of town was the scone scene of ills his willies Wi Ules mill a place abouo abou c yi ards ads north of the town was tile the of his death and dr hornbook chih field boube three quarters of a mile to t the lie south east was 11 his I 1 6 castle 0 V montgomery A dairy maid working at that place was his HiL highland bland mary A spot a little e etna of tile the house was tile the scene of his pathetic parting with High highland lInd mary my next letter will finish my account of tile the home of tho the poet burns re depsy 4 pl wm oneill |