194 JULY 



Regiment, commemorating James Douglas, Earl of 

 Angus, only son of the second Marquis of Douglas. 

 He raised a regiment of 1200 men from among the 

 Covenanters of the Upper Ward of Lanarkshire, 

 and fell at the head thereof at the battle of Stein- 

 kirk in 1692, being then but twenty-one years of 

 age. The sculptor has represented the young lord 

 standing with his hand extended towards the glens 

 whence he drew the regiment, which was known by 

 his name at first, and later became famous as the 

 Cameronians. It is a most impressive monument, 

 worthy of this historic scene. 



LX 



Perhaps as one to whom angling is the solitary 

 River illusion left the one pursuit which, for 



Pollution m6j a g e canno t wither, nor custom stale 

 its infinite variety I shall be suspected of preju- 

 dice when I affirm that of all saddening, maddening 

 objects in nature, none is so bad as a defiled river. 

 It is never so offensive as at the present season, 

 when the wealth of vegetation is at its height, and 

 life is at its best and most abundant everywhere, 

 down to the very verge of the poisonous flood. It 



