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CHAPTER X. 



RESUMES WORK AS A STONE-CUTTER AT CROMARTY INTIMACY 



WITH MR STEWART THE LITERARY LION OF THE PLACE 



WRITES FOR THE ' INVERNESS COURIER ' LETTERS ON THE 



HERRING FISHERY EXTRAORDINARY SHOAL OF HERRINGS 



A NIGHT ON GUILLIAM EMIGRATION OF HIGHLANDERS 



TO CANADA SCIENCE AT LAST. 



HAVING committed the body of Uncle James to the 

 grave, and piously recorded on his tombstone that 

 he had ' lived without reproach and died without fear/ 

 Miller did not return to Inverness, but resumed his em- 

 ployment in the churchyards of Cromarty and its 

 neighbourhood. The publication of his poems, whose 

 authorship was well-known in the locality, was sufficient 

 to make him a person of some importance in his native 

 town. He associated himself with the better portion of 

 its inhabitants, those who combined a moderate liberal- 

 ism of political opinion with literary or scientific tastes 

 and strong religious principles. His acquaintance with 

 the Rev. Mr Stewart, which had formerly been slight, 

 now deepened into intimacy, and no sooner had he an 

 opportunity of knowing Mr Stewart well than he con- 

 ceived for him the highest esteem, and dismissed for ever 

 from his mind, as the mere fruits of misunderstanding, 

 what he had formerly fancied to the disadvantage of his 

 minister. Miller's profession of religion, also, was more 



