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features. Some of these sketches are 
touched with spirit anc truth, but others 
are too faint, or confused, to be easily 
comprehended. With another short ex- 
tract we must take leave of our entertain- 
ing tourist, whose work has certainly af- 
forded us much amusement. If she in- 
tends to publish again, we recommend 
her (with sentiments of true candour and 
friendship) to cultivate brevity and per- 
spicuity of description, to study a little 
of natural history and antiquity, that she 
may thereby extend her enquiries, and 
ive more interest to her productions. 
The Clam-shell cave, with its large 
bending pillars, convex horizontal prisms, 
&c. are described, and Mrs. Murray 
states, that she appropriated this singular 
spot to “adining room.” “ When I 
had finished my luxuriant feast,” she 
observes, “ particularly of mind, I began 
my march over the horizontal pillars, 
which lay like-numerons keels of huge 
men of war, petrified in one mass, and 
jointed like masonry. By scrambling 
Art. XIII. Av9eunravopsvoss or, a pedestrian Tour throush Part of the Highlands of 
By Joun Brisrep. 
Scotland in 1801. 
OFT have we admired the address of 
those renowned sons of Galen, Doctors 
Brodum, Sclomon, &c. and’ the rival 
dexterity of Mr. Packwood in the variety 
and originality of their advertisements. 
One begins a grave paragraph, perhaps 
on the importance of Malta, the capture 
of St. Domingo, or the ravages of the 
yellow fever in Philadelphia; and soon 
finds oneself assailed with an eulogy on 
the virtues of the Balm of Gilead, the Ve- 
getable Syrup, or the ‘new Razor-strop. 
We have laboured through this long ad- 
vertisement, 1160 pages! in which that 
“most marvellous ettort of human abt- 
lity and benevolence,” Dr. Cowan’s 
Tractate on Education ; the Adviser, or Moral 
and Literary Tribunal; Essays, philosophi- 
eal and critical, by the author of the Adviser; 
and the Wanderer, ave puffed off with no 
eommon assiduity. 
We shall not detain our readers two 
minutes ; itis not our intention to empty 
upon their heads the contents of these 
valumes. pity / 
We shall just hint that Mr, Bristed is 
not ashamed virtually to avow himself 
the author oi Essays, philosophical and cri- 
tical, (See pages 196 and 197, vol. 2.) 
although in another place (vol. 1, 349,) 
he speaks, of the Adviser as having been 
written by some other person. 
BRITISH TOPOGRAPHY AND ANTIQUITIES. 
over: some horizontal, some bending 
some upright pillars, I at length gained 
the plain at the summit of the island. 
This plain is about one mile by three 
quarters, having a thin strata” (stratum ) 
“ of soil over the great caves, but on the 
north side of the island the pasture is ad- 
mirable for feeding of cattle and sheep. 
It will graze from forty to fifty head of 
cattle from October to June, and heifers 
for the remainder of the -year, giving 
the grass a month’s respite. Staffa 
when farmed, lets for fourteen pounds 
a year. It is part of the estate once be- 
longing to Macquarrie, chief of the Mac-- 
quarries, and whenever it has changed 
masters, it has been sold with the island - 
of Ulva. The present laird of these isles 
is Ranald M‘Donald, Esq. of the house 
of Boisdale, whose mind and taste are 
fully capable of appreciating the jewel 
in his possession, the like of which, in 
all probability, cannot be found on the 
face of the terrestrial globe.” 
Svo. Two Vols. pp. 1160. 
Mr. Bristed and his companion travel- — 
led throngh the Highlands in the cha- 
_racter of American sailors; they roam- 
ed the country in. forma pauperum, des- 
cant loudly on the luxuries of the great — 
and the miseries of the poor, go from 
pot-house to pot-house ‘for half a bed, 
complain of the jealousy of the police 
because they are taken up for spies, and 
of the frequent inhospitality of the Scots, 
because they were not welcomed as gen- 
tlemen ! There is a great deal of pert- 
ness and a great deal of vulgarity in 
these volumes: it cost Mr. Bristed but 
very little effort, we suspect, to accom- 
modate his conversation to the company 
he courted inthe Highlands. . Mr. Bris- — 
ted takes every opportunity of commu- 
nicating his opinion on moral and poli- 
tical subjects, which he generally treats 
in a very dictatorial manner. About 
a hundred pages at the latter end of the 
first volume are taken up in considering 
the state of the female sex: what relates 
to their intellectual acquirements, and 
their state in society, is stolen from an — 
essay in the first volume of the Cabinet 
‘(p. 178.) The theft too is committed in | 
a Most mean and sneaking manner 3 in 
the first place there is no reference given 
to the original essay ; every instance of — 
female superiority there produced ig _ 
