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and age through sickness and health through 

 growth and decay through all the vicissitudes of 

 existence, the gallant organ faithfully prosecutes its 

 task, and never for a moment ceases to beat. But 

 above all, think of the mysterious principle for which 

 this bodily mansion was built ; which yet no search 

 has ever been able to discover in any of its apart- 

 ments which no eye has seen, no hand touched, no 

 science probed ; which enters it we know not how, 

 which forsakes it we know not why ; but which, 

 when it departs, leaves the splendid house it inhabi- 

 ted a hopeless ruin, as if a soverign has scarcely 

 died ere the palace he occupied sank into a heap of 

 [ sand ! Man is a compendium of marvels ; a perfect 

 mass of mysteries ! 



From Dumfries the angling tourist, if desirous of 

 prosecuting his rambles to the west, through what 

 is commonly called Gallowayshire, will find no more 

 assistance from railway conveyances. There are two 

 routes for angling the various interesting streams in 

 this part of Scotland ; the one by taking the mail 

 coach road, which keeps by the sea coast, right 

 through to Portpatrick, a distance of eighty-four 

 miles, and fishing the rivers as he crosses them at 

 right angles as they flow into the Sol way Firth ; or, 

 he may strike right up the country, where he will 

 meet with the same rivers in their higher localities. 

 We have gone both routes more than once ; and though 

 both are highly interesting, we give the preference 

 to the upland route, on account of the picturesque- 

 ness of the entire range of country. There are, un- 



