te from Isabella to Albert: Noo. 7s 
that some of them have now and then wandered over 
the borders, to try if they could find fhelter in Scot= 
land. But you have so many universities there, the 
profefsors are so learned; the clergy are so ‘zealous, 
and the laity have all got such a smattering of let 
“ters, that these stragglers have been immediately 
scouted, and so hunted from place to place, that they’ 
have been forced to take fhelter again in England, - 
where the climate seems to be more congenial te 
them than any where else; and where the people, 
having been long accustomed to see them, do not 
bear such an extreme antipathy to them, as in Scot-' 
land. “Your brother, who is a philosopher, wall pro~ 
“bably be able to give me better information on this: 
head than [have yet got. I once heard that there 
“was a creature that is probably 2 variety of the same 
-genus, but differing in many respects from that a- 
‘Bove described, which was once very common in 
‘Scotland ; and there known by: the name of LARD, or 
LAIRD, or some’such name, which is either extirpa- 
ted, or much degenerated of late. If your brother’ - 
will oblige me -with a genuine account of that crea- 
ture in return for this, I fhall account ita particular’ 
favour ; for my ideas, from the imperfect accounts I 
have heard of it, are very indistinct.’ 
Here ends the legend of Mrs B. which I ‘took’ 
down from her own mouth, who spelled the cramp 
words for me herself; and with it ends my paper, 
so farewell for the present.’ Yours, IsapEnra, | 
