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You cannot shut the window of the sky, 



Through which Aurora shows her smiling face ; 



You cannot bar my constant feet to trace 



The woods and lawns, by living streams at eve ; 



Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, 

 And I their toys to the great children leave ; 



Of fancy, reason, virtue, nought can me bereave." 



Starting by railway or otherwise from Glasgow, 

 we must make our way to the north side of the 

 Firth, and drop a line into the Carron, which is not, 

 however, of any great value as a mere fishing stream. 

 We have seen, nevertheless, some fine trout taken 

 out of it; and it likewise contains both pike and 

 perch. Its banks, in many spots, are very inter- 

 esting. The tourist will see that the chain of the 

 Campsie Hills is interrupted by the valley of the 

 Forth. As we take a more northerly direction, it 

 rises still higher into the Ochil Chain, the summits 

 of which rise to above two thousand feet above the 

 level of the ocean. This chain is broken by a nar- 

 row valley, through which the Earne and Tay make 

 their way; but between these rivers the hill of 

 Moncrief, and to the north across Angus, the hills 

 of Kinnoul and Liedlaw, continue the chain, though 

 at a very moderate elevation, to the sea at Red Lead. 

 This mountainous tract is said by travellers to re- 

 semble very much the district of Auvergne, in the 

 south of France, which is almost universally believed 

 to be a district of extinct volcanoes. 



Fifeshire is not a first-rate county for angling. 

 The rivers are the Eden, the Leven, and the Orr ; 



