THE BASS ROCK. 2C7 



in full view. I now joined our party there, who had been 

 busily giving books, &c., among the few cottages which lie 

 in one sheltered corner. A poor man, whom reason had 

 left, lay basking on the grass with a number of children 

 playing all round him. He seemed gentle and kind to 

 them, though no others dared to interfere. Sorrow had 

 left its deepest traces on his poor old mother's face. 

 Suffering of many kinds met our eyes ; and we were 

 painfully impressed with the contrast between the outer 

 forms of nature and these poor wrecks of human kind. 



