322 CONCLUSION. 



unalloyed excitement the calm luxurious solitude, which I 

 found among their wastes. What has refinement to offer me 

 in exchange? Will the over-stocked preserve replace the 

 moorland chase, with its glorious ridge of purple highlands 

 its silver lake, and sparkling river my wild followers my 

 tried friends and the dear cabin arid its snowy tent, peeping 

 from the dark expanse of heather, like a white sea-bird from 

 the lap of ocean ? Alas ! nothing will compensate for these 

 or give me an equivalent for the joyous intercourse with 

 kindred spirits, which I realized and left in the wilds of Bally- 

 croy. 



THE EKD. 



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