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to London, to stay there upwards of a week, and 
to return to Aberdeen. I would readily undertake 
upon a wager to travel to London upon twenty 
shillings. But I shall not determine the sum— 
only I shall use the strictest economy. Bread and 
water will do very well for the greater part of my 
journey, for many a better man has lived a longer 
period than will be allotted to it upon worse fare. 
I have already travelled upwards of 500 miles, as 
I have said. 
Miles. 
From Aberdeen to Fort William . . 161 
From Fort William to Glasgow * . . 133| 
From Glasgow to Portpatrick . . . 9Sf 
From Portpatrick to Springfield, near Gretna . 109| 
503~ 
“ The account of expenses may be seen in the 
Appendix. It has rained occasionally to-day, and I 
am wetted to the skin. I must continue to travel, 
however,-till I get upon English ground, that I may 
not be obliged to break upon the remaining half of 
my money. 
44 1 am not in a proper mood for making reflec¬ 
tions, as may be readily conceived after what I have 
said. I leave Scotland without regret. Scotland 
is too wide a word for me, as the saying is. It is to 
the isles of the West alone that I feel attached and 
to the. mountains of Albyn, and I pass from 
Dumfriesshire to Cumberland with perfect uncon¬ 
cern. Excepting the scenes of my youth the world 
is all alike to me. Its inhabitants are all alike my 
brethren. 
“ Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, 
Land of the mountain and the flood. 
Land of my-” , 
Wherever I go my heart shall still be attached to 
