SCOTTISH SCENERY, 
transplanted here, often with some little 
additional circumstance to disguise it: 
even the metaphors and similies there 
employed are used here, disfigured in- 
deed, grossly disfigured, although the 
identity is palpable. It would have been 
409 
more impudent but less dishonourable 
to have transcribed the whole essay, or 
to have copied sentences entire and un~ 
mutilated, than thus wantonly to have 
defaced them for the pitiful and frustrate 
purpose of avoiding detection. 
Arr. XIV. Scottish Scenery; or, Sketches in Verse, descriptive of Scenes chiefly in the 
‘Highlands of Scotland ;, accompanied by Notes and Illustrations, and ornamented with 
Engravings, by W. Byrne, F. S.A. from Views painted ly G. Walker, F. A. S. E. 
4to. pp. 400. 20 Plates. 
Meyz BiGaiv! We must be allowed to 
exclaim in Greek, at the sight of this 
grand volume, “ descriptive of the Petit 
Tour of Scotland.” 
«* The author is aware, that of late years, 
many have been employed in describing the 
game scenery ; yet, as he attempts to treat the 
subject in a style somewhat different from 
any traveller who has preceded him, he hopes 
the design will obtain the approbation of 
those who have a taste for this species of 
composition, provided the execution shall be 
found, in any degree, to correspond with the 
beauty and grandeur of the subject.” 
The merits of this author are so vari- 
ous that we know not wherewith to be- 
gin. He is poet, moralist, naturalist, 
philosopher ; and though he has modestly 
withheld his theological knowledge, we 
see by thetitle page that he is alsoa D.D. 
Of these various subjects the poetry’ per- 
‘haps deserves precedence, as giving title 
to this mass of multifarious learning, this 
encyclopedia of humanintellect. First, 
then, we will adduce a few specimens of 
Doctor Cririe’s poetical merits, under the 
various classes of excellence into which 
they may be arranged. 
First: The Sublime, as produced, in 
imitation of Milton, by sonorous sounds. 
« Here let us stop our wand’ring northward 
course, 
_ Nor farther roam mid dreary mountains wild ; 
But ti to where the Tumate meets the 
‘ ‘a 
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ge Logie-Rait return. A boat soon wafts 
so’er the Tummle.” (P. 55.) 
hl Another river, yet to song unknown, 
~The Mouse its name, though small, of mighty 
force.” (P. 144.) 
__ Are we mistaken in supposing that 
Horace alluded to this river, when he 
_ describes the Mouse as proceeding from 
the mountains? 
_ The Sublime, as produced by the In- 
defime. 
‘Those 
«© Hence westward, hast’‘ning to the Jake 
descends 
A river's mighty stream, Aharan nam’d; 
Sheer o’er the steep it shoots some hundred 
feet.” (P. 61.) 
Again. Apostrophizing Loch Lo. 
mond, for the apostrophe is the favourite 
figure of passion, 
‘©To thy stupendous size, what's Derwent 
Lake? 
What all the lakes of Cumberland to thee, 
With those that grace her sister county 
join’d? 
pretty ponds let others flock to 
view.” (P, 108.) 
But after this fine passage we perceive 
with sorrow that the Doctor, deviating 
from the rules of true sublime, which he 
had before so well observed, has actually 
given the measurement of Loch Lo- 
mond, bating furlongs and yards. It 
was peculiarly unfortunate to tell us, 
that the shores, including their windings, 
mieasure an hundred miles in circumfer- 
ence, immediately after the bold apos- 
trophe which we have quoted, and that 
noble contempt expressed of Derwent- 
water, for its comparative littleness. The 
measurement necessarily recalls Guth- 
rie’s Geographical Grammar to our re- 
collection, and we feel, what certainly 
-the poet never designed to make us feel, 
that Lake Superior is indeed a Superior 
Lake. 
_ The abrupt. 
: 
se placid and calm 
The twilight dim descends, and. changeful 
forms 
Croud the uncertain view, ’mid hills un- 
known, 
Veil’d with the sable curtains of the sky, 
Which slowly shifting close around. Mean- 
while, 
Fancy, and wild Imagination’s pow’r, 
The varions forms of Jakes and islands trace, 
Their banks with groves of tuficd trees 
adorn'd ; 
Meand’ring rivers, winding smooth and slow, 
Illusive, gliding ‘iwixt the op’ning clouds. 
