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plenty of time for another walk. Having yesterday 

 diverged from the road, we this morning took the usual 

 path to the loch, and then proceeded onwards as before 

 to the lofty platform station, where we gazed enamoured 

 till the mid-day sun was at its height. Retracing our 

 steps, though loath to go, we ascended the Penitentiary, 

 packed up our bundle, paid our bill, and made our way 

 to Stirling. For the sake of the view we were each stao-e 

 in an uncovered conveyance, and during the last hour 

 felt monstrous cold; so much so, that we could at last 

 only faintly articulate, ' There 's Stirling/ and on getting 

 to the station, instead of running up the battlements to 

 see the sun set, as did Jess of Dunblane, we ensconced 

 ourselves near the fire of the refreshment room, ordered 

 hot coffee and sandwiches, and were soon far cosier than 

 kings." 



TO ADAM WHITE, ESQ. 



" Woodville, 2&th April 1852. 

 " Since I wrote to you last I have been not seldom 

 ashamed, I shall not exactly say of forgetfulness or pro- 

 crastination, but of inefficiency. I looked through old 

 Lzaak soon after hearing from you, and was as usual 

 delighted with his fine, old-fashioned, rambling way of 

 recording bis piscatorial excursions. But one can scarcely 

 regard it now-a-days as a practical work, and to make it 



