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The Forth has its birth among hills that look down on Loch Katrine and Loch Lomond ; flows thence in a pretty tortuous course - towards the east , forming a boundary line between the countries of the Gael and the Sassenach is replenished by the Tei th from the Trossachs and by the Allan from m Strathmore ; eanders at the foot of Stirling Castle, and seems never to weary of weaving its silver windings into that green expanse of country where most the 3 Edinburgh Scottish imagination loves to linger until at last , when O chils there is poured into it the Devon from the , its s l channel widens to the sea omewhat sudden y . But S even here the diverging banks , once so near, how an occasional friendly inclination to meet and at one point there is only a mile of blue water and white waves w between them , and then the vie widens and the shores a part irrevoc bly , the one stretching away to the extreme east neuk of Fife , and looking To No owa to Nor owa rr y, r y, To No rroway ow er the faem and the other rolling with softer curves to the South and England, while the great German Ocean ebbs and flows between . The point where the banks of the Forth are but a mile apart is now spanned by that triumph of engineer — the ing , the Forth Bridge , largest bridge in the world ; but in olden days there was here a famous crossing, and the names of the villages on the opposite banks , North Queensferry and South Queensferry, still carry the mind back to the days when Malcolm ’ Canmore s stately Saxon Queen , Saint Margaret of c S otland , was ferried across here on her way between al the p ace of Dunfermline and the Castle of Edinburgh . Edinburgh was not then , nor for centuries after, the u Capital of Scotland , but merely a seful stronghold —a near the Borders, great rock rising abruptly among woods and lochs and hills, on which , from before the a — an e rliest legends of history , a fortress had stood , 4 Edinburgh Castle n impregnable castle , built so long ago that one knows ’ its origin , nor even the origin of its name . Stow s C/z roni cle a , indeed , dates the foundation of the C stell s" Ma den 8 B . C . of y 9 9 , which is a sensational date to mention lightly to the inquiring tourist from the newer world It is supposed that the name “ Castell Ma dens of y was gained because , in legendary days , certain Pictish princesses were kept there for safety ; i and certainly , from those hazy times right on t ll the time of Mary, Queen of Scots , when she was sent to the Castle for security before the birth of King James , Edinburgh Castle has always been a useful place of safety to which to send royalties and rebels . The earliest authentic romance of Edinburgh Castle is that of Malcolm Canmore and Queen Margaret ; and the oldest building extant in Edinburgh is Queen ’ Margaret s chapel in the Castle . - The well known story of Queen Margaret, the - f grand niece of Edward the Con essor, is that she and her brother Edgar Atheling and her sister Christina f all led from England and William the Conqueror, and were wrecked in the Firth of Forth . The King of Scotland , Malcolm Canmore , was the son of that Duncanwhom Macbeth put out of the way— inScottish ’ — history as well as in Shakespeare s play , and he had f led from the usurper , and had spent his years of exile at the Saxon Court of Edward the Confessor. sonof unca n The D Fro m who m thistyrant holdsthe due of bi rth 5 Edinburgh Li v esi nthe En liscou a n s i g h rt ; d i r ece v ed O f t he os i o usE w a wi su m t p d rd th ch grace Th a t the m alevol ence o f fortune nothing a esf o hisi resec T k r m h gh p t .
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