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Liverpool To Glasgow.

dirty disagreeable city. Father saw Bill. one of the sailors that had come over on the Savanak with us.

19th. Father went to [[Broune?]] Shipeley &co. and got three letters from home all containing good news. At two o'clock we went on board the Steamer Lyra for Glasgow. In the evening the vessel pitched very much and mother and Lilly, as well as most of the passengers were very sea sick.

20th. We came on deck just as the steamer was passing [[Ailie?]] Braig, which is a peculiar mass of rock rising out of the sea like a pyramid, around it were hovering thousands & thousands of binds, which roost & build them nests on the ends of the [[barastic?]] columns. Soon after we passed the Island of Aran, & many other picturesque islands. We reached Gre[[insert - e]]no[[insert - c]]k towards noon, where the steamer had to wait two hours till tide would be up. Leaving that there was a train of cars about starting for Glasgow we concluded to take them and reached the city about half part twelve o'clock. We got lodgings at Mr. Nab's hotel. After dinner we took a walk to see St. George's square. On the way we passed the exchange which is a fine building, of Greek architecture; before it there is a statue of the Duke of Wellington on

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Glasgow.

horse back. St Georges square has in it. the statues of James Walt, Sir Walter Scott, and Sir John More. Father liked that of Watt by Flaxman the best. We next went to find the place where Grandfather lived. Father's birth place, which we did without much difficulty. The house itself is not now standing, but that which any great grandfather occupied which is just opposite is still there; a Mr. George Purdon, a slater, now lives in it. We went in to see him, and told him [[strikethrough]] [[over?]] [[strikethrough]] of our connections with the place, He treated us very kindly. & gave us some genuine Scotch whisky He went his son with us to show us to show us the way to. Father's uncle John's, grandfather brother, We spent some time talking with him, and found him a very amiable, & interesting old gentlemen. We next went to Fathers cousin John Smith's at Wallace Brae, Keppoch Hill. He is an intelligent man of about middle age, & has an extensive nursery. After spending some time talking with him and his family which is large, we returned to the hotel. 

As the journal from Au. 20th. to Sept. 1st. is very disconnected I make the following summary of the way in which the time was spent. On the morning of the 21st. Aug. at an early hour we got upon one of the numerous neat little steamers which ply