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mnile; lone, i-s v.ry interestin. The canal saves a lorir
and often stormy passage of seventy-five miles around
the Mulll of Cantyre. The steamer has to paos through
twealvo lock ', n  t>o passage takes two hours. The c nal
1: Vry ~ro, o   n     ems more like a river than a canal,
s there are high hills on one side, and it seeris much
le-s artificial than most canals. It must be quite deep,
.s the steamer was of good size. It taes two hours and
a  'ter to sail from Oban to Crinan.
'vent through Loch Pyne, famous for its herrings,
d the Kyles of Bute, a narrow strait which separates
the north end of Bute from the mainland. We passed Rothsay,
the capital of thie Island of Bute; and Greenock with its
large :ip-building yards, where t o fre.t Atlantic liners
are Edii. We saw so--, of them on the stocks, riot -et
-ommlated. The 71y-de i. an interestino river, but the
3. is -onethinrg awful, though the Americans seeried to
be the only people on board the boat who seemed to mind
It. The English and Scotch seemed o take it as a matter
of course, and not to notice it, but we could hardl;
Jtle of 1"'ar~a
rina rol-n ,"       : bou< 1 in "1n, and put p o a *n
our friends' handkero i.ofs; as well :. on our own.