158 NETHER LOCHABER. 



attention. If you can. command telescopic aid on the occasion, so 

 much the better, but even without it, it were strange if we could 

 not view with admiration and delight the silver orb that probably 

 at some such conjunction as that of the 20th, when walking in her 

 brightness and her beauty, tempted the patriarch of old to kiss his 

 hand in acknowledgment of her excellency, and bow before her in 

 adoration. 



