Northern Memoirs Calculated for the Meridian of Scotland to Which is Added
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It's a pleasant part of a country, I confess, though methinks it stands almost out of the world. Am. Let it stand as it will stand, it stands well enough, by reason it borders so near the Highlands. Theoph. Why then it will look further off from home. For these Highlands, to my think- ing, but represent a part of the creation left un- drest : As some great and magnificent fabrick is erected, you know abundance of rubbish is left to remove ; so I fancy those Highlands appear to me, because wanti...ng ornament, and destitute of cultivation. Am. You shall have it on your own terms, as void of form as the natives are indigent of mo- rals and good manners. However, from these eminent rocks we descry the ocean, and the ships sometimes as they cruise upon the coast. But now the air that was serene, is thickned, I fan- cy, and struck with impressions of cold ; for the wrack of clouds begin to roll about, variously in- 216 NORTHERN MEMOIRS. termingled with a rapid motion ; and the lower region swells and looks big, but the nights di- rect to an equal proportion with the days : so that observing the summer in a declining pos- ture, what think you of fixing our inclinations southward ?
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