362 A Walk from 



five minutes each to half a dozen hands, amounting to 

 half an hour to a single man at the end of each swath 

 or work. Supposing the mowers made twenty in ten 

 hours from bottom to top of the field, here is the loss 

 of one whole day for one man, or one sixth of the 

 whole aggregate time applied to the harvesting of the 

 crop, given to the mere running down that hill of six 

 pairs of legs for no earthly purpose but to cut inward 

 instead of outward, as we do. The grain-ricks in 

 Scotland are nearly all round and quite small. Every 

 one of them is rounded up at the top and fitted with a 

 Mandarin-looking hat of straw, which sheds the rain 

 well. A good- sized farm-house is flanked with quite 

 a village of these little round stacks, looking like a 

 comfortable colony of large, yellow tea-caddies in the 

 distance. 



Beached Perth a little after dark, having made a 

 walk of nearly twenty miles after 11 A.M. Here I 

 remained over the Sabbath, and greatly enjoyed both 

 its rest and the devotional exercises in some of the 

 churches of the city. 



The Fair City of Perth is truly most beautifully 

 situated at the head of navigation on the Tay as 

 Stirling is on the Forth. It has no mountainous 

 eminence in its midst, castle-crowned, like Stirling, 

 from which to look off upon such a scene as the latter 



