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our people in the Lowlands. They are at the same 
time more proud, pafsionate, and resentful. 
» The former being descended from the Celts, while 
the latter owe their origin more to the Saxons and 
Danes, seems to afsign some cause for the above di- 
versity. ; 
» Through the counties of Inverneis, Banff, Aber- 
deen, and the Mearns, the natives. speak » generally 
with a quick accent, and in a fharp tone, exprefsive of 
their temper, which is alert and active. As you, 
advance southward, the drawling tone begins at 
Montrose and Brechin. At Coupar of Angus it be= 
gomes more perceptible ; and here the people are in 
general more soft and simple im their manners than 
their northerly brethren. They seem in some mea 
sute to partake of that calmnefs and serenity of tem- 
per, so congenial to the soil and climate ; and which 
are here fenced from the stormy blasts of the north, 
by the fhelter of the Grampian hills, and that enor- 
- mous mafs of high towering mountains that rise 
above one another to the north and north-west, and 
guard the south entry into the Highlands. 
In some counties, and even in some parts of the 
same county, a more rough or rustic manner pre- 
vails than in others. The natives of Glasgow and 
Lanerk fhires are remarkable for an uncouthnefs of 
speech, and manners peculiar to themselves. In Aber- 
deenfhire, notwithstanding the general politenefs 
about Huntly and the Strath of Bogie, the vulgar 
_manner is peculiarly rough and unpolifhed; and 
even the women afsume a hoydening air, and loud 
tgne of voice, that are.often disgusting to.a stranger. 
