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CHAPTER III. 



COMES OF AGE SETS SAIL FOR EDINBURGH PARTING RE- 

 FLECTIONS MORNING ON THE MORAY FRITH FIRST SIGHT 



OF EDINBURGH ABSENT FROM CHURCH FOR FIVE SUNDAYS 



AND 'A FEW MORE' HOLYROOD, CHARLES ii.'s STATUE, 



EFFIGY OF KNOX, THE COLLEGE, FERGUSON'S GRAVE, DR 

 M C CRIE THE PANORAMA, THE THEATRE. 



MILLER is now to enter upon a scene in all respects 

 new new in temptation, new in instruction, new in 

 companionship. He exchanges the rustic murmur of 

 Cromarty and the solitudes of Gairloch for the sights 

 and agitations of the metropolis of Scotland. He has 

 acquired an accurate knowledge of the character and 

 circumstances of the Scottish Highlander ; he is to bring 

 his faculty of observation to bear upon the inhabitants 

 of the Lowlands. In both instances his observation is 

 as yet almost entirely confined to the working class. 



In the autumn of 1823 he comes of age, and is 

 therefore competent to exercise rights of proprietorship 

 over a wretched tenement on the Coal-hill of Leith, 

 which has been a constant source of loss and annoy- 

 ance to his mother from the time of his father's death, 

 His own wish, and that of his friends, now is, that he 

 may be able to dispose of it, and with a view to investi- 

 gating the affair on the spot, he sails from Cromarty for 

 Leith in the spring of 1824. I have before me a 



