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•' Long, Scotia stern I thy bugle note resume — 

 Grasi) thy claymore — thy plaided bonnet plume ! 

 From hill and dale — from lianilet, heath, and wood. 

 Peal the wild pibroch — pour the battle flood ! 

 ' In Egypt, India, Belgium, Gaul, and Spain,' 

 Wall' in the trenches — whirlwinds on the plain ! — 

 This meed accept from Albion's grateful breath- 

 Brothers in arms — in victory — in death !" 



A reputation like this is a pearl of high price, and such as every true-hearted 

 Scot will appreciate as the best of all passports ; seeing that it will serve him in 

 every climate— will command respect even from enemies, and be left, at the close 

 of his journey, as the proudest legacy to surviving friends. They who have 

 known the world intimately, and enjoyed a free intercourse with the high— or 

 even highest, grades of society, will uniiformly admit that the man, however 

 humble, whose integrity is sound and piety genuine — and whose patriotism is a 

 fixed principle of his nature, is the true avaK avSpwv among his fellows.' 



Taking it for granted that, in a work of this nature, we address a class of 

 readers of young and buoyant mind— ready to take on impressions either friendly, 

 or inimical to their future happiness in the career of life— we have stepped aside 

 for an instant, in order to point the attention to that which alone can bring true 

 honour to their country, and confer upon themselves imperishable distinction. 



Having thus far, though very superficially, adverted to the natural genius of 

 the people, we now turn to the natural scenery of the country. This, Hke the 

 orders of architecture, so various in its character, features, and combinations, 

 seems, nevertheless, perfect or imposing in all. On one hand it presents the 

 suuplicity of the Tuscan, tUl, having passed through each of the intermediate 

 stages, it assumes all the richness and beauty of the Corintliian, and then merges 

 into the wild and rude magnificence of the Cyclopian. To exemphfy these, and 

 justify our comparison, we have only to enumerate the several stages and 

 gradations of Scottish landscape, from the quiet cultivated vale, with its sober 

 look of repose, and rustic population ; the swelling upland, strewn with woods 

 and intersected by streams ; the bold and elaborate outline of forests, inter- 

 mingled with rocks, and varied with feudal towers ; then the inhospitable moors, 

 with their dark solitary lakes, sepulcliral cairns, treacherous morasses, the hunter 

 and the shepherd's cabin, the scattered flock, the haunt of the red deer, and the 

 province of the grouse and ptarmighan : lastly, the frowning rocks— bursting like 

 famished skeletons from their scanty shells of vegetation, patched with heath, 

 sprinkled with firs, scathed by storms, and shaken by the impetuous rush of 

 cataracts— here cleft into gigantic fissures, wliich collect the tribute of a thousand 



