Name/Title
StereographEntry/Object ID
2023.055.3.0048Description
Black & white stereograph. Image is of a small steam boat on a river, woods can be seen in the background. Below the image "Loeh Katrine Scotland - "The spot an Angel deigned to grace." -opyright 1899 by Strohmeyer & Wyman." is printed. To the left of the image "Underwood & Underwood. Publishers. New York. London. Toronto-Canada. Ottawa-Kansas." is printed. To the right of the image "Works and Studios Culing--n N.J. Littleton, N.H. Washington D.C." is printed. On the reverse "As we stand here on the heathery bank of Loch Katrine, 400 feet above sea level, we catch a glimpse of one of th eloveliest features the Trossachs afford. This lake is not very lare - scarcely ten miles long, in fact - but, for its size, it is very deep - not less than 500 feet in depth in some places. It is the source of Glasgow's water supply, which is conveyed by gravitation through an aquaeduct, and for purity and wholesomeness its water is unexcelled. Placid and clear, its water reflects as from a mirror the surrounding scenery. (Invert the stereograph and you will have a double view hardly less perfect when reversed, so tranquil is its surface.) This beautiful lake is the upper reservori of the River Teith, which flows from here through the picturesque gorge of the Trossachs, forming a junction near Callander with the over flow from Loch Lubnaig and joining the Forth northwest of Stirling. On its north side Ben A'n rises to an altitude of 1800 feet, and on the south Ben Venue towers 2863 feet aloft, pouring numerous streamlets into the loch. That steamer would take us past Ellen's isle, the sylvan retrat of the Lady of the Lake, the heroine of Sir Walter Scott's romantic poem. it was on one of the hills above this lake that Sir Walter made his hero meet the highland rebel and his men -
"These are Clan Alpine's warriors ture, And, Saxon, I am Roderick Dhu!"
This islet seems to float in beauty on the water - a dream within a dream, far, far from the madding crowd." through we area ctually only about sixyt miles from Edinburgl..
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Sir Walter Scott: The Lady of the Lake.
(double line)
Loch Katrine, Scotland.
Le Lae Katrine, Ecosse.
Loch Katrine, Schottland.
El Lago katrine, Escocia.
Lock Katrine, Skottland.
(Letters of the Cyrillic alphabet)Collection
Photograph Collection