Thursday, 5.--We rode through the pleasant and fruitful Carse of Gowry, a plain, fifteen
or sixteen miles long, between the river Tay and the mountains, very thickly inhabited, to
Perth. In the afternoon we walked over to the royal palace at Scoon. It is a large old house,
delightfully situated, but swiftly running to ruin. Yet there are a few good pictures and some
fine tapestry left, in what they call the Queen's and the King's chambers. And what is far
more curious, there is a bed and a set of hangings in the (once) royal apartment, which was
wrought by poor Queen Mary while she was imprisoned in the Castle of Lochlevin. It is
some of the finest needlework I have ever seen, and plainly shows both her exquisite skill
and unwearied industry.
The Journal of John Wesley
The Journal of John Wesley
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