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| | Rambles Round Glasgow - Gleniffer and Elderslie |
 | | At our feet is the old Castle of Stanley, with its sheet of water glittering in the sun; beyond is the magnificent basin of the Clyde, stretching away to the Campsie and Kilpatrick Hills, with all its garniture of woods and fields, mansions and farms, villages and towns, set down as in a map. |
 | | Elderslie, or "Ellerslie," as it is occasionally spelled, is a small straggling village, principally consisting of two ranges of commonplace-looking houses, erected on either side of the highway leading westward from Paisley, and at a distance of fully two miles from that town. |
 | | The spot on which he was born, the scenes of his numerous battles with the enemies of his country’s independence, his various hiding-places in seasons of adversity—indeed, every place and object associated with the name of Wallace, is hallowed in the memory of every true-hearted Scotsman. |
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