of a Country on its Inhabitants. 2 S 5 ' 
'take of a dreary magnificence, and fullen gran¬ 
deur, that produce a deep and Jailing imprefilon 
upon the mind. Thefe fentiments are congenial 
with the appearance of the country The du- 
pendous fcenery of rocks, clouds, precipices, 
torrents, and deferts, continually exhibited to 
their fenfes, cannot fail to fugged a train of 
thoughts and expredions correfponding there¬ 
with ; and the accidents, to which a life of hunt¬ 
ing, in a country that gives occafions to fo many 
dangers, is expofed, contribute dill farther to 
increafe the gloom, and throw a darker ihade 
upon the imagination. Hence, borrow and terror 
are the pafiions they are mod naturally led to ex¬ 
cite. Their mufic, as well as their poetry, is 
plaintive, and, I believe, modly applied to the 
recital of melancholy tales, or unfortunate events. 
Even their fuperditions are of a melancholy cad. 
The noted faculty of prying into futurity, by 
means of a previous fight of events that were 
to take place, fo noted in tire Alpine fcenes, 
both of Scotland and Swiderland, is held to 
be of a fad and uncomfortable nature, unlike the 
Seers of old,-who were thought to be particularly- 
favoured by fuch communications. This faculty 
has been regarded by thofe, who believed they 
podeflcd it, as a misfortune, on account of the 
many dreadful images it obtruded upon the 
fancy. This kind of prefcience feems to have 
been principally, though not altogether, con¬ 
cerned 
