LORD WOODHOUSELEE. ; 545 
M.S. 
GULIELMI TYTLER, de Woodhouselee, 
H. L. P. F. 
En virides aras, en hance quam ponimus urnam, 
Tu, fil ex manibus respice dona, Pater ! 
Sie, venerande Senex, olim qua rura placebani 
Sint eadem busto nunc decorata tuo. 
_ Neve Tibi desit post funera sueta voluptas, 
Proximo ab umbroso cantet avis nemore, 
Et qui Te placido lenibat murmure rivus, 
Dulcia perpetuis somnia portet aquis- 
By the death of his father, Mr Tyrier had succeeded to ‘the- 
estate of Woodhouselee ; and some years before that period, 
Mrs Tytxer had, in a similar manner, succeeded to the pater- 
nal estate of Balnain in Inverness-shire. He was now in cir- 
cumstances of aifluence,—his friends were numerous,—his own. 
disposition in the highest degree hospitable and kind,—and he 
felt himself at liberty to attempt to realise some of those visions 
of retired and rural happiness, which had long played in his ima- 
gi ation, and which form, perhaps, one of the earliest reveries: 
ae generous or cultivated mind. He began, therefore, 
immediately to embellish his grounds, to extend his plantations, 
and in the enlargement of his house, to render it more ade- 
quate to the purposes of hospitality; and in the course of a 
short period, he succeeded in creating a scene of rural and do- 
mestic happiness, which has seldom been equalled in this coun- 
try, and which, to the warm-hearted simplicity of Scottish 
manners, added somewhat of the more refined air of classical 
| elegance. 
