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A Walk from London to John O’Groat’s

CHAPTER XVII
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The old cathedral, having been knocked about like other Roman Catholic edifices in the sledge-hammer crusades of the Reformation, was _ruined_ very picturesquely, as a tourist, with one of Murray's red-book guides in his hand, would be likely to say.

But the choir was rebuilt and fitted up for worship by the late Duke of Atholl at the expense of about 5,000 pounds.
Of this duke I must say a few words, for he has left the greenest monument to his memory that a man ever planted over his grave.

He did something more and better than roofing the choir of a ruined cathedral.

He roofed a hundred hills and valleys with a larch-and- fir work that will make them as glorious and beautiful as Lebanon forever.

One of the most illustrious and eloquent of the Iroquois aristocracy was a chief called Corn-planter.


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