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is covered from end to end with students in different 

 states of graduation. This season we have plenty of prog. 

 We breakfast about seven. Various parties start in 

 various directions, each furnished with a pocket-com- 

 panion to sustain life. Some return at five, some at 

 seven, and some not till nine. The butcher-meat is 

 mostly cold, except the potatoes and fish, so that a few 

 minutes are enough to prepare the meal of each squadron 

 as it arrives. They have got some fine plants, greatly to 

 my inconvenience as a scribe, for the long table is covered 

 with their collections, and there is little or no elbow- 

 room. 



"Eemember me to the darlings, and tell J about 



C. glabratus on the tops of the high hills. There are 

 millions of moths upon the moors, and beetles under 

 every stone. I will shew him my collection whenever I 

 get home, and give him some to himself." 



"Manse of Rlair-Atiiol, 

 12th August 1832. 



"We arrived here last night, after a stout walk of 

 upwards of thirty miles across the mountains from 

 Braemar to the head of Glen Tilt, and so down the 

 valley to this snug dwelling, where we have been re- 

 ceived with great k'ndness, and enjoy every comfort — ■ 

 except, 'Home, sweet home! 1 the delights of winch, 



