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much corporeal strength as is requisite for burden-carrying, and 
therefore are fain to ease their backs and shoulders at the ex- 
pense of their pockets. During our three or four weeks’ tour in 
the Highlands we were often wet, sometimes soaked through ; yet 
we never suffered perceptibly from colds and rheumatism, which 
often follow these involuntary applications of the hydropathic 
system. If the tourist have no change of clothes, or only an in- 
adequate change (which is next-door to none at all), let him take 
our advice, which is, to go to bed, and there remain till all his 
things are completely dry. If the weather clears up, one may 
walk in his wet toggery till quite dry, without any risk. But 
sitting in wet clothes, either with or without a fire, is fraught 
with peril to the health of the tourist. 
The 13th was Sunday, and we rested and attended divine ser- 
vice in the churches of Killin. 
We spent three Sundays in Scotland, not in populous towns, 
but in large country villages, and remarked that this holyday was 
~uniformly observed with great solemnity. People accustomed to 
the more imposing ecclesiastical observances and usages of other 
countries might find the services of divine worship in this country 
rather meagre, abrupt, and conducted with perhaps too little re- 
verence. No one cau complain of breaches of the fourth com- 
mandment in Scotland. The day is reverenced: all work is sus- 
pended, and all the proprieties are strictly observed. Most of 
the people attended service in one or other of the churches. It 
was very interesting to see the small companies, all well attired, 
coming down the glens to church. Many came from a great 
distance. The-parish of Killin is about thirty miles long, and 
from eight to ten miles wide, consequently some are nine or ten 
miles distant from their place of worship. There are two ser- 
vices in the middle of the day, without any interval. The first is 
in English, the second in Gaelic. The latter is the language of 
poetry as well as of religion, and it is deeply rooted in the affec- 
tions of the people. A large proportion of the people understand 
English, and they come to the first service. The exclusively 
Gaelic people, or those who know both languages, attend the 
second service. In the afternoon all return home as devoutly as 
they assembled. It is rare to see people idling about the streets 
or in the fields, or to notice children playing, on the Lord’s day. 
In the remote parts of Scotland, Sunday is strictly a Sabbath, a 
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