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Want of punctuality implicates good sense as 

 well as good manners. No exertion whatever 

 could recover the time ; this robbed me, to a 

 certain extent, of my complacency ; for though 

 the storm was past in my mind, yet, like the 

 ocean, the agitation there continued. 



We proceeded two miles in the Sanquhar 

 road before we turned off for Moneyhive. We 

 came within a mile of Drumlanrig, where the 

 Duke of Buccleugh is effecting great repairs, 

 and making additions to the mansion. Shameful 

 depredations, we were told, had been committed 

 in the woods, while in the possession of the late 

 Duke of Queensberry. Many years ago, I had 

 the pleasure of visiting Drumlanrig, with Lord 

 Kames. He had a great veneration for the 

 place from a circumstance that little minds 

 would studiously have concealed, and been 

 desirous to bury in oblivion. 



His Lordship's father had superintended the 

 building. I have often heard Lord Kames ob- 

 serve that he could not boast of the wealth of 

 his father, but that he had reason to be proud 

 of his integrity, and the general 'esteem in 

 which he was held by all good men who knew 

 him. 



