tures here, particularly linen and cottons, and the printing of cottons is extensively carried on.

While I was sauntering about the south shore, or key, which is frequented by a number of vessels not above two hundred tons, I was struck with the ferocious conduct of an Athol highlander. Near a vessel where they were unloading coals, I observed several large carts, with excellent horses, and stout welldressed drivers, which I learnt belonged to the duke of Athol. In the midst of these appeared a young man in a highland dress, who, with two small horses and a small and shabby cart, tried several times to get on to the place where they were unloading; but the fellows with the showy carts came in his way, jostled him out, and detained him. He could not speak the English language well: however, he knew so much of it as to inform them that he would not be detained any longer. As he was not tall, and in appearance weaker than any of them, they attempted a third time to prevent him. Irritated at their conduct, and satisfied that he was not a match for them with his whip, he drew from under his kilt, or philibeg (a short tartan petticoat worn by many of the highlanders) a sharp knife about twelve inches long, and drove all the three before him; swearing by the DoUL, which is, it seems, the Gaelic for the devil, that he would be the death of them all if they imposed upon him any more; and while the three stout fellows were trembling, he very coolly filled his cart, paid for his coals, and went his way, singing a Gaelic song.

At the inn where I lodged here, I one day fell in with a surgeon who was extremely angry. He had

been visiting a patient, who, for several days, had

been growing worse. Symptoms of the disorder going off, and yet the patient every day growing worse, was what he could not comprehend. As the patient complained much of his head, the surgeon desired his night-cap to be taken off, that he might see it. The parents of the young man who was the patient were unwilling to consent to this: however, it was done; and the surgeon, to his astonishment, found that a quack physician had also been called to see him, who had put a large seal of green hot sealing wax on the crown of the young man's head, in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, to ward off the power of enchantment; the quack having persuaded the parents that the young man was, whatever might be said to the contrary, under the power of some enchanter. However, the enchantment being removed with some curses from the surgeon, the young man soon became better.

I was amused in conversation with some of the Perth people, with whom I accidentally fell in, in strolling about the north shore, touching the extremity of the principal street, with the dexterity by which a young man, a native of Perth, had lately obtained a very good kirk, that is, a very good church living.

The people in the parish of P-k having always been displeased with the clergyman presented by the patron to the living, he resolved to present whomsoever they should choose to be their minister, "if it should be the devil himself." This being intimated to the people upon the death of their minister, they immediately set about calling to preach

before them the young men who, in their language, were said to be gospel ministers. Five were fixed on, and invited to come and preach before them, by way of trial, who all attended, and the people had unanimously agreed to choose one of the five as their minister, according as they should find him the most orthodox and rigid Calvanist and Predestinarian. As there was an inn in the parish appointed to accommodate, at the joint expense of the parishioners, those who should preach, as also their horses and a friend, a young man on his way from Edinburgh to Perth to see his father, got himself appointed to preach to them, as it would save him the expense of himself and his horse at the inn for a night. Suiting himself to the taste of his audience, in the course of his lecture in the forenoon, he took an opportunity to harangue against the Papists. This pleased them much. In the afternoon, having dined and had something to drink, which made his pulse beat not slower than usual, he raised his voice again, not only against Papists, but Arminians; and further, began to thump the cushion.

When a clergyman, to whom they were much attached, used to preach to them, sometimes a mouse that lodged about the back of the pulpit, would come out, and run about the sounding-board, or that which hangs over the minister's head. This mouse had not been seen for six months, nor since. their favourite minister preached, till now that the gentleman preaching began to thump the cushion, when the mouse again made its appearance. On this occasion, the people all agreed that this was a sign from heaven to choose the person preaching

for their minister: which they actually did. A committee, therefore, of the parishioners, was sent off to the patron without delay, who threw the presentation to them, saying, " It is signed and ready, and you may put in the blank the devil's name if you please."

FROM PERTH TO DUNDEE.

HAVING staid some time at Perth, I set out for Dundee through the Carse of Gowrie. In my way thither, I was glad to see such rich, well-dressed, and neatly inclosed fields, such substantial farmhouses, and so many evident marks of comfort among the farmers. The truth is, a good farm here is a little fortune, at least it was so some years ago; for I have the best information that a farmer got lately from lord Kinaird the sum of five thousand pounds for the right to the remainder of a lease of a farm on his lands that had only seven years to

As among the people on the south side of the Tweed, prejudices against the Scots, are fast subsiding, so, fortunately, this is the case in most parts of Scotland with regard to the English; and I was glad to find the farmers here not only employing English servants, English drainers, English ploughs, English horses, but having English cows, English sheep, English fashions, and almost every thing English. In short, I was glad to see them talking so much about the Bakewell breed, and the many advantages arising from their intercourse with the English.

As I was riding slowly along near Kilspendie, I met a number of what may be termed begging gipsies. They were all merry, a wedding having been lately among them, which it seems was performed