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one hour, and the sermon which followed, two hours in length ; 

 both, I admit, excellent in their way. But then, although the 

 argument and the doctrine were sufficiently stimulating to a 

 stranger, yet veterans accustomed to such engagements might 

 get to sleep, from pure exhaustion, under the discharges even of 

 musketry and cannon, and might require extraordinary appli 

 cations to keep their sensibility alive. I will say, however, in 

 justice to the Scotch, that I never witnessed more decorum, and 

 more wakeful attention, in time of service, than in the Scotch 

 meetings j and they bore these inflictions or penances, as less 

 serious minds would consider them, with a philosophic submis 

 sion, worthy of the pillar saints in the dark ages. 



While speaking of the manners of the rural population, I 

 may allude to another practice prevailing in some of the rural 

 districts in Scotland, which some persons in the rural districts 

 in the United States may feel an interest in knowing. I 

 attended worship, in Scotland, in a most quiet and delightful 

 district of country, and among green fields cultivated with the 

 highest skill, and loaded with the richest crops, where, when 

 the first regular service was through, and all done, after an 

 interval of about ten minutes, during which the minister never 

 left his pulpit, nor the congregation their seats, the minister 

 began and went through another whole service, and gave a 

 second sermon on a different subject, as long as the former. 

 This finished for the day, and, as I was informed, was so 

 arranged that the farmers, and farmers wives and daughters, 

 who lived at some distance, might get home in season to niilk 

 their cows, and tend their cattle. I had likewise a slight 

 impression come over my mind, that they meant to have their 

 money s worth of instruction, and did not choose to let their 

 spiritual laborer off with half a day s work for full wages. It 

 required, however, a healthy intellectual digestion to dispose of 

 two full meals at once. 



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Besides the cattle and grain markets, there are other markets, 

 to which I have already alluded, connected with agriculture, 



