Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland, AD 1803 Quotes

“A laugh was on every face when William said we were come to see the Trossachs, no doubt they thought we had better have stayed at our own homes. William endeavoured to make it appear not so very foolish, by informing them that it was a place much celebrated in England, though perhaps little thought of by them, and that we only differed from many of our countrymen in having come the wrong way in consequence of an erroneous direction.”
― Dorothy Wordsworth, Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland, AD 1803

“When [Robert] Jamieson, the editor of the 5th edition of Burt's Letters, was in the Highlands in 1814, he met a savage-looking fellow on the top of Ben Lomond who told him that he had been a guide to the mountain for more than forty years, but now 'a Walter Scott' had spoiled his trade. 'I wish,' said he, 'I had him a ferry over Loch Lomond; I should be after sinking the boat, if I drowned myself into the bargain, for ever since he wrote his Lady of the Lake, as they call it, everybody goes to see that filthy hole, Loch Ketterine. The devil confound his ladies and his lakes!”
― John Campbell Shairp, Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland, AD 1803