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and the Leasowes. Comparing the notes Miller gives us 

 of his visit to Stratford-on-Avon with those on Shenstone's 

 landscape-gardening, we cannot but regret that his 

 modest avoidance of fields whence the ' originally luxu- 

 riant swathe ' had been ' cut down and carried away/ 

 prevented him from journeying to the shrines of Eng- 

 land's great men and detained him so long beside the 

 work of one of her ingenious versifiers. 



The Scotchman is, of course, seen peeping from 

 beneath the plaid of Miller as he journeys through Eng- 

 land. ' To my eye/ he says, ' my countrymen, and I 

 have now seen them in almost every district of Scotland, 

 present an appearance of rugged strength which the 

 English, though they take their place among the more 

 robust European nations, do not exhibit ; and I find the 

 carefully-constructed tables of Professor Eorbes, based 

 on a large amount of actual experiment, corroborative of 

 the impression. As tested by the dynamometer, the 

 average strength of the full-grown Scot exceeds that of 

 the full-grown Englishman by about one-twentieth, to 

 be sure, no very great difference, but quite enough in a 

 prolonged contest, hand to hand, and man to man, with 

 equal skill and courage on both sides, decidedly to turn 

 the scale. The result of the conflict at Bannockburn, 

 where, according to Barbour, steel rung upon armour in 

 close fight for hours, and at Otterburn, where, according 

 to Eroissart, the English fought with the most obstinate 

 bravery, may have a good deal hinged on this purely 

 physical difference/ But if he dearly loves to put in a 

 good word for Scotland, he can do justice to England. 

 ' Scotland has produced no Shakspeare ; Burns and Sir 

 Walter Scott united would fall short of the stature of 

 the giant of Avon. Of Milton we have not even a re- 

 presentative. A Scotch poet has been injudiciously 



