PREFACE, XXXV 



in saying, that were my fortune of that 

 description which would make it conve- 

 nient to realize choice, my pointers at least 

 should have the full benefit of an education 

 in Scotland/' 



In proceeding to the remaining part of 

 this volume, containing " Instructions" to 



hended, in a day or two, every thing she meant. But," adds 

 the doctor, "I was not at all surprised," not even bodily 

 surprised, being as how " that I have, for these two months 

 past, been more and more convinced, that the mind of man 

 is more perfect as one moves northwards ;" Q. Does he mean 

 the mover's mind? "that a penetrating air produces pene- 

 trating souls ; and that wind and weather, the keener they 

 are, appear to give a sharper edge to the human understand- 

 ing." Doubtless the world is under infinite obligation to this 

 sapient lord (Woodhouselee), for thinking it worth while, 

 after an interval of fifty years, to bring forth these deeply 

 philosophical reflexions of a man so eminently capable, as 

 this Edinburgh professor shows himself, to judge of human 

 intellect. Leaving him, however, to settle this point, about 

 "penetrating souls," as well as he can with his southern 

 readers, and to exhibit his powers of phisiological research, 

 by showing the relation of cause and effect between " the 

 wind and weather, and the human understanding," I confine 

 myself within my own immediate province, and am solicitous 

 only to have received, as a kunogetical truth, that the best 

 of all possible situations for the cultivation of canine intellect, 

 is " the Muirs." 



