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feelings towards the Author of all the wonders 

 which surround him ; here the most determined 

 sceptic would be compelled to admit the existence of 

 a Supreme Being. The most sublime of religious 

 temples, the cathedrals, and even the magnificent 

 and incomparable Vatican itself, where the Deity 

 and religion display themselves in all their pomp 

 and majesty, can never excite in the mind senti- 

 ments of faith and piety so perfect and profound as 

 those inspired by the stupendous, transcendent, and 

 prodigious creations of Divine Omnipotence dis- 

 played in these mountain passes. 



It is not one of the least of the pleasures of the 

 angling tourist to find, in many of those seques- 

 tered spots, such as we are now treating of, the 

 beauties of nature, sterile and bleak as she often is, 

 inspiring the love of song in the rural swains in the 

 neighbourhood ; and to witness how often the ten- 

 der passion is awakened in the breast of the rod- 

 fisher, by rambling among the solitary haunts 

 which his sport leads him to frequent. In angling 

 down the Fruin lately, we met with one of those 

 rural ditties, which pleased us much, chiefly on 

 account of having been highly interested with 

 the divers windings through its wild and romantic 

 channel to where it empties itself into Loch Lomond. 

 This is all the apology we can offer for inserting 

 these lines here. 



" Iv'e aften seen the roses blaw 



I've aften stray' d the flow'rs amang 



