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Title: Sandford Fleming, empire builder
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Burpee, Lawrence J. (Lawrence Johnstone), 1873-1946
Subjects: Fleming, Sandford, Sir, 1827-1915 Railroads
Publisher: London, Oxford University Press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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to the caves ofWemyss. Occasionally too business or pleasure would take him tothe old town of Dunfermline, where he probably may haveseen a much smaller boy named Andrew Carnegie, who wasdestined to make a name for himself in the world. A familiarsight was the island of Inchkeith, in the middle of the Forth,pretty much the same then as when Carlyle and Irvingvisited it in Robie Gregs poor green-painted, ricketyyawl; the same wonderful views across the water, Edin-burgh with its towers, the great silver mirror of the Frith,girt by such a framework of mountains, cities, rocks andfields and wavy landscape, on all hands —a preciousmemory to hold for other days. But of all the scenes about Kirkcaldy, once familiar toSandford Fleming, nothing exceeds in loveliness the parksand gardens. The gardens of Dysart stretching fromRavenscraig along the banks of the Forth and overlookingthe beautiful southern shore from the Bass Rock to Salis-bury Craigs and Arthurs Seat are the pride of the people
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Sandford Fleming in 1845 A VOYAGE IN A SAILING SHIP n of the Lang Toun \ Even more richly endowed withsweetness and quiet beauty is the Raith, immediatelyadjoining Kirkcaldy. There is only one Raith, and to thosewho have known it the wide world may be searched in vainfor its equal. Every son and daughter of Kirkcaldy carriesthrough life the memory of its charm, with its beautiful lakeand waterfalls, its heather lodges, its gently swelling uplands,its magnificent trees of every variety, all combining to giveto the Raith an air of perfect sylvan beauty. An entry in the diary under date of January 13, 1845,must be given in full, for the sake of the spirited descriptionit contains of a little-known Scottish festival : Auld HanselMonday. Went down with others to Duravale to see MissSimsons picture of the Slave Market at Constantinople, andthen returned to Haugh Mill. Next morning I entered thekitchen at six oclock. Here is the master at the fire heatingthe meal, and the mistress at the boi

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