Excursions Through the Highlands And Isles of Scotland in 1835 And 1836
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I have been w'aited on by a lassie without shoes or stockings, articles which seem very generally dispensed with through- out the island. July 27. — My landlord predicted that this would be a fine day, and such confidence had he in his own prophetic powers, that he meant to cut his grass immediately. His language, and that of all the people of Arran, is tolerably pure English ; but there is an occasional admixture of Lowland Scotch, and a strong guttural accent. By dint of various queries, whic...h he put without any diffi- dence, he elicited from me, a very full account of myself. When I mentioned that I belonged to the • Universitj^ of Cambridge : " Oh then, " says he, " ye'll know Mr. Sedgwick: awful bothers I've had wi' him. He was in Arran for three weeks, examining the island. But about a fortnight ago, here were two Germans, one of them practical engineer to the King of Prussia, indefatigable fellows. They found out two veins, that neither Sedgwick, nor Murchieson, nor Jame- son, nor any of them had noticed.
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