50 Importing Grain impolitic. 



neither may see that their general interest is 

 the same. It is extremely desirable that food 

 of British growth should be rendered to the 

 consumer as cheap as by possibility it can be 

 afforded. And it is equally important, that a 

 remittance of forty millions sterling in ten 

 years, or fifty-eight in twenty-one years, to 

 foreign states, for the purchase of our subsist- 

 ence, in the article of grain only, should, by 

 wise regulations, be prevented, to avert the 

 national ruin which must, sooner or later, be 

 consequent on so impolitic a system. 



We had a long and tedious pull to the summit 

 of the hill we had to ascend ; very unsuitable to 

 the impatient desire we felt for reaching Merton 

 JIall. It was Sunday, and numbers of persons 

 decently dressed passed us on their way to 

 Kirk, many of whom appeared to have come 

 from a considerable distance. 



The zeal and decorum with which the sacred 

 duties of religion are performed in Scotland 

 are at once highly prepossessing and edifying. 

 If an impression favourable to the national 

 character were desirable to be made on a 

 stranger on his first entrance into Scotland, 

 it should be contrived on a fine Sunday 

 piorning. 



A 4 JOY 



