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showed that this could not be altogether the case with 

 the Southern Americans. He thought the religious 

 parts of " Dred " very inferior to " Uncle Torn," rather 

 sentimental and sickly. He referred to the opinions of 

 Mrs Stowe's brother, Dr Beecher, on Sin and Eternal 

 Punishments. " He would make us out to be ticket- 

 of-leave men," he said with scorn. 



1 Ere the new year had come he had passed away 

 from amongst us in that paroxysm of bodily and mental 

 illness in which his strong will gave way, and he lost his 

 self-control. 



c Edinburgh streets have seemed emptier since I could 

 no longer hope to meet there his rugged stalwart form, 

 and see his pale abstracted eye brighten with the smile 

 of kindly recognition. 



' There is a city which the streams of the River of 

 Life make glad. May we meet as fellow-citizens there ! 



<M. W. J 



At Cromarty and Linlithgow Miller, as we saw, was 

 an indefatigable and voluminous correspondent. In 

 Edinburgh, penning two or three leading articles per 

 week and with a book generally on hand, he required 

 no further vent for his literary productiveness, and wrote 

 no such letters as those which it formerly had been his 

 delight to pour forth. He told his friends that they 

 must consider the Witness a bi-weekly letter from him, 

 and confined his epistolary performances to notes of 

 reply to invitations, brief answers to geological querists, 

 and the like. In this rapid fashion he corresponded 

 if correspondence it can be called with a very large 

 proportion of the most eminent scientific men of his time. 

 Professors Owen, Agassiz, Sedgwick, Sir Charles Lyell, 

 Sir David Brews ter, Mr Mantell occur to me at 



