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independent, and single-minded class of men; 

 occupying their own small estates, handed down 

 to them from generation to generation; their 

 mansions forming the central point of their 

 respective lands, in which they lead an innocent 

 and undisturbed mode of life, amidst their own 

 paternal meads and native hills. Their artificial 

 wants being but few, they live in a frugal and 

 temperate manner. Kemoved from the glare 

 and extravagances of fashionable life, their habits 

 retain their simple and primitive character; 

 their hospitality is unbounded; and their senti- 

 ments natural, cordial, and friendly. They will 

 often say to the travelling angler, " Go to the 

 vale on the other side of yon mountain, to the 

 house of such an " Estatesmari," and tell him 

 you came from me, I know him not ; but he 

 . will receive you kindly, for our sheep mingle 

 upon the mountains" 



There is something in traversing the wild 

 and romantic districts of these two counties, 

 which, like sweet music, excites a powerful and 

 mysterious ecstacy over our ordinary sensations, 

 and which, though very distinctly felt, cannot 

 be adequately described. When the air is calm 

 and serene, the faintest breeze hushed into 

 silence, no sound save the limpid waters 

 gurgling over the rocky bed of the river, 



