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in the reading.-Homeward bound. - A story thirty miles long suddenly

broken off.-Night among strangers.-Cromarty.-The end of the righteous.-

Further desolations of death.-Glimpses of the past.-Witch-burning.-Tales of

The subscription school and its schoolmasters.-Rory Shingles' Cave.-A wild,

half-savage life.-A new friend.-Inflammability of shale due to the animal

substance it contains.-Evils of leadership.-A serious scrape.-Discipline of a

wholesome lesson.-The new schoolmaster.—Curious revelations of arithmetic

and copy-books.-Increased warmth of the water in windy days accounted for.

-A test poem.-Offences and punishments.-Abrupt termination of my school

education.-A pasquinade.-A broken circle of companions.-Wise plans in-

terrupted.-Johnstone, the old forty-two man.-A desperate enterprise success-

ful.-The old soldier's difficulties...

Choice of a profession.-Work in the Cromarty quarries.-Dreams of a hermit

life not restricted to poets.-Nobility of toil.-Varieties of the quarry limestone.

-A taste for the beauties of natural scenery a never-failing spring of delight.

-Mental depression consequent upon physical fatigue.-Instances of great in-

sensibility to personal danger.-Drinking usages of the profession.-Temptation

overcome.-Organisms of the lias.-Use of spent thunderbolts.-Fossil wonders

of the eathic lias.-An important discovery not followed up.-Journey into the

Highlands, the old shepherd's vision.-Forest of native Scotch pine.-A new

acquaintance.-Moonlit exhibitions of natural scenery...

Conon Side.-A midnight hour.-Gillie-Christ.-Spectral appearance in the

churchyard. The poor maniac.-Origin of the soul.-Traditionary stories.-

Highland character.-The maniac's quarrel with her husband.-Something pe-

culiarly unwholesome in the society of a strong-minded maniac.-Her anec-

dotes of a brother.-A specimen of barrack-life.-A new school.-Professional

characteristics.-Bothy life of the North-country masons........

Interesting objects around Conon Side.-The poetic mood.-The accomplishment

of verse distinct from the poetic faculty.-Stanzas.—Unio Margaritiferus, and

the formation of pearls.-Bathing in the haunted pools of Conon.-Superstition

has her figures as certainly as poesy.-The ruined chapel in the woods.-A dark

rivulet and its trout.-Curious property of Flounders.-Libellula.-Different

stages of the animal creation.-Human contrivances anticipated in both animal

and vegetable nature.-Jock, the story-teller of the barracks.-The faculty for

extemporary fabrication a peculiarity of a rude society.-Musings.-Verses to

The young painter's home.-Symbolism of ancient Celtic sculpture.—“ Poor lame

Danie."-Barrack-life again.-The conglomerate deposits of Conon.-Goblin

of Craighouse.-Highlanders of the border districts inferior to those of the in-

terior.-Superstition natural to a state of failing health.-Disastrous effects of

the large farm system on the people of the agricultural districts.-Study of the

old Scotch poets.-Alleged superiority of the old Greek and Roman writers

accounted for...

Disastrous consequences to the mechanic of being an inferior workman.—My

friend of the Doocot Cave.—A perilous adventure.-Ludicrous expedient to fix

a boundary-stone.-Click Clack, the Carter.-Unique features of the metamor-

phic system.-Recession of the shore of Loch Maree.--Music on the waters.-

Island Maree.-Comforts of a barrack.-Home of a Highlander.-" Without

Gaelic in Gairloch."-Effect of a potato famine.-Disparity among people of

contiguous districts due to a mixture of races.-Discrepancy in the appearance

of the sexes on the west coast of Scotland.-Gaelic Thinking in Scripture Eng-

A terra incognita.-Contentment sometimes rather a vice than a virtue.-A ge-

nius.-A grave difference between porridge with, and porridge without milk.

-Relative powers of fairies and ice to walk off with great stones.-Flora of

Gairloch.-Law of increase in the animal and vegetable world,-the same ap-

plies to man.-View of the western islands.-Differences between the produc-

tions of the eastern and western coasts of Scotland.-Submarine scenery.-

Primitive arts of uncultivated districts.-Gloomy prospects of the cotters,-their

Celtic blood not the only cause of their indolence.-A resurrectionist.-Sabbaths

in Flowerdale.-Poverty of the Highlanders...

A sad Accident.-Belief in a particular Providence natural to the mind.-The

last eagle of Cromarty Hill.-The ancient records of geology confirmed by the

present extinction of animal species on the globe.-Resolve to seek my fortune

among the stone-cutters of Edinburgh.-Scenery of the Frith of Forth.-Distant

view of the Scottish capital.-An unfortunate patrimony.-Edinburgh a city

of the past and present.-" A Highlander newly come to Scotland.”—A culti-

vated and fenced country less beloved by a people than a wild, open one.-The

carboniferous system.-Visions of science.-Serfdom in the coal districts.---

Collier women of Niddry.-The democratic watchword "Liberty and Equality"

faulty in its phlosophy.-Moral degradation in the environs of Edinburgh.-

Disaffection toward religious establishments among the working-men of Scotland.

-My fellow-lodgers.-Irreligion among the masons.-Family worship estab-

lished in our cottage.-Habits of dissipation among the masons.-The province

of intelligence in reforming the morals.-The nobler virtues unknown to black-

guards.-Charles the hero of our party.-Evil effect of the practice of promis-

cuous imprisonment.-Intolerance of new sects.-Strike among the masons.-

Scene in a public house.-Human nature a difficult problem.-Evils of strikes.

---The self-conceit of the young a wise provision.—“" Old Alie, the witch,” and

"Davie, the apprentice."-A city playhouse..

A great fire in Edinburgh.-Special visitations of heaven difficult to be deter-

mined. Dr. M'Cric.-My reading and Rambles.-Nox Ambrosiana.-We un-

derstand an author the better for knowing how he looks.-Quit Edinburgh for

Cromarty.-Superstition of sailors.-Stanzas written at sea.-Reflections on the

condition of the lower classes,-causes of their degradation on the increase.-

Renewed acquaintance with my friend at Doocot.-Man had no responsible

predecessor on earth.-Intellectual superiority of the scholar over the work-

ing-man not so great as has been supposed..

My religious impressions,-Powerlessness of mere speculative theology.-Con-

vinced that the "Word made flesh" is the central object of the Christian sys-

tem,-importance of this belief.-Adaptation of the scheme of redemption to

the heart of man,-practical power of this principle.-Teachings of geology on

the doctrine of the union of two natures in Christ.-Failing health.-Stanzas.

-Convalescence.-Sketches of a gipsy party.....

A new branch of employment.-Observations on the floras of Kirkmichal,-

their bearing on the development hypothesis.-Angus, the idiot of Nigg.-

Jock Gordon, the imbecile of Cromarty,—their rivalship, and its issue.—An

original theory of the mind.-The ministers of Cromarty.-Meeting with Mr.

Stewart, our subsequent intimacy.-His manner of preaching....

Set out to seek employment at Inverness.-Interview with the parish minister.—

The sort of patronage which letters of introduction procure.-Planning to get

employment.-Both verse and old English fail me.-A jilted bridegroom.—

The Osars of Inverness.-Criticism on the magistrates.-Determine to publish

a volume of poems.-Death of my uncle James, and of my friend William Ross. 398

Preface to my volume of verse.-Write for the Courier on the herring fishery,-

extracts.-Reception of my verses by the critics.-A near criticism.-A severe

attack from an itinerant elocutionist,-the lecturer barely escapes a drubbing.

-A generous critique from Edinburgh.-My circle of friends become consider-

ably enlarged.-Interview with Dr. Baird.-Other literary enterprises.-The

error of forsaking an honest calling.-An interesting group of literary ladies.

—Jeu d'esprit on a young naval officer..

Land wastes of Culbin.-Peculiarities of the sub-aërial formation.--Great age of

the globe,-the Scriptures do not fix its antiquity.-Tremendous storm on the

Hill of Cromarty,-extraordinary character of the scene.-Origin of Scottish

mosses.-Molusca of the Shandwick lias.-Dissection of a loligo.-The oolitic

and lias deposits.-Organism of the second age of vertebrate existence....... 437

The Baptist cause at Cromarty.-Opposition to the Catholic Relief Bill.—Trouble
in the parish,-a dire ecclesiastical dispute.-Approach of the cholera.-Our
Barrier Sanitaire measure.—The virtues of the smoke of sulphur and chloride
tested,―fumigation of the Inverness politicians.-Ravages of the pestilence.-
A time of peace favorable to the growth of opinion.-The Revolution in France,
-reception of the news by the crew of a French lugger.-Effects of the Reform

Bill on the politics of Cromarty.-Beginning and ending of my municipal

Evenings with the ladies.-A pretty young lady and "the Cromarty poet.”—A
lovely apparition.-The propriety of conversing privately with an operative
mason.—A dream maiden displaced by a real one.-Thoughts of a home in thẹ

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