34 New Town Stewart. 



and expense incurred in their formation will, 

 on a future day, be amply repaid. 



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 Wearied with the continuance of barrenness, 

 which for some miles had attended us, the 

 traces of cultivation were a great relief. The 

 labors of man are requisite to inspire social 

 interest ; his comfort, after all, is the secret 

 spring that vibrates on the heart. 



A new bridge, of a light and airy construc- 

 tion, is nearly completed over the Cree. Here 

 we met a number of the towns-people, whose 

 habiliments had an appearance as creditable as 

 those of the same class in England. A great 

 improvement in dress has taken place, even 

 among the lowest classes in Scotland, in the 

 course of the last few years. 



New Town Stewart is ill built, ill paved, and 

 to the traveller inspires but one wish that it 

 could be avoided. 



Two miles further is the hospitable mansion 

 whence I am nowwriting. Such a metamorphose 

 has the face of the country here undergone, 

 that those who knew it some years ago might 

 doubt its identity. This you will easily credit* 

 when I tell you that general sterility has been 



