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sabbath at different places of worship. Wick is 

 honored with this distinction it assembles a larger 

 congregation of men to listen to the glad Evangel on 

 Sunday than any city of the world ever musters under 

 one roof for the same purpose. It is the out-door church 

 of the fishermen. They sometimes number 5,000 adult 

 men, sea-beaten and sun-burnt, gathered in from 

 mountainous island and mainland all around the 

 northern coasts of Scotland. 



Monday, Sept. 28th. The weather was favorable, and 

 I set out on my last day's walk northward with a 

 sense of satisfaction I could hardly describe. The 

 scenery was beautiful in every direction. The road 

 was perfect up to the last rod ; as well kept as if it 

 ran through a nobleman's park. The country most 

 of the way was well cultivated oats being the prin- 

 cipal crop. Here, almost within sight of the Orkneys, 

 I heard the clatter of the reaping machine, which, 

 doubtless, puts out the same utterance over and upon 

 the sea at Land's End. It has travelled fast and 

 fur since 1851, when it first made its appearance in 

 Europe in the Crystal Palace, as one of the wild, 

 impracticable " notions " of American genius. In 

 Wick I visited a newspaper establishment and saw 

 in operation one of the old " Columbians " or the 

 American printing-press, surmounted by the eagle of 



