3998 Insects. 



Entomological Localities. By J. W. Douglas, Esq. 



(Continued from page 3690). 



Scotland. 



" O Caledonia ! stern and wild, 

 Meet nurse for a poetic child ! 

 Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, 

 Laud of the mountain and the flood, 

 Land of my sires ! what mortal hand 

 Can e'er untie the filial band 

 That knits me to thy rugged strand ? 

 Still, as I view each well-known scene, 

 Think what is now, and what has been, 

 Seems as, to me, of all bereft, 

 Sole friends thy woods and streams were left ; 

 And thus I love thee better still." 



Scott : — * Lay of the Last Minstrel? 



" Hear Land o' Cakes and blither Scots, 

 Frae Maidenkirk to Johnny Groat's ; 

 If there's a hole in a' your coats 



I rede ye tent it : 

 A chield's amang you taking notes, 



And, faith, he'll prent it." 



Burns. 



It was in the beginning of August, 1838, that I yielded to the 

 solicitations of a friend, and my own cherished desires, to visit the 

 Scottish land of mountain and of flood. We were impelled to make 

 the tour by an undefined romantic notion of seeing hills and lakes, 

 more especially that district rendered classical by Scott's ' Lady of 

 the Lake ; ' and once determined to go, our enthusiasm rose so high, 

 that if the antipodes had been our destination, the impulse we had 

 received would have carried us there. On my part, there was, in ad- 

 dition, a strong desire to see something of the land of my fathers, — 

 men who, if viewed by the light of our civilization, appear to have 

 been little better than powerful ruffians, yet, judged by the standard 

 of their own time, show no cause why I should be ashamed to own 

 them as my ancestors, but rather, make me regret that so noble a 

 stock should have produced such a degenerate scion. At any rate, 

 they were earnest men, doing what they had to do with all their might; 



