GLEN EOTHA COTTAGE. 189 



AMICUS. Whose is this cottage ornee, skirting 

 the village ? There is nothing feudal in its 

 appearance. 



PISCATOK. It too has its history. It is a 

 creation of fine taste, and has been the residence 

 of a succession of men of cultivated tastes, 

 Eydal Mount, rising above and contiguous to 

 it, no doubt the attraction, with its own special 

 beauty. Its first inmates were men who, at 

 the end of the last war, not the Crimean, laid 

 by the sword and here courted the Muses. 

 Here the translator of Camoens, of whom I 

 have before made mention as a friend and an 

 angler, enjoyed a few short years of domestic 

 happiness, too soon interrupted by the loss of 

 his wife, in a most distressing way, from her 

 dress taking fire. His successor, the graceful 

 narrator of his campaigns and travels, owed his 

 removal to a happier cause, not the disruption 

 but the accomplishment of a union with an 

 amiable woman ; and his successor again, a 

 man the whole tenor of whose life has been 

 peace, one of the Society of Friends, makes the 

 spot his occasional retreat, not unmindful of the 

 Muses. We are approaching Nab Scar. Do 

 you see that cottage by the roadside ? It too 



