152 I have Mary Queen of Scotland.-Of the Aborigines of the Western Country of America. [December 6, 1817. united to the charms of her wit, would them for the press, and publish them made an instrument to the succeeding have rendered her greatly superior to for her benefit. In the mean while we one; till, at length, become irresistible, all the women of her age, in which she are permitted to make a few extracts. he swept whole empires, with their arts lived, though Nature had not lavished The subject is extremely interesting, as and sciences, off the face of the earth.” upon her the choicest of her favours. it treats of the ancient inhabitants of a This important truth we consider partiThese attractions, of which Elizabeth great continent. Dr. Campbell appears, cularly applicable to the original peofrequently heard, fatigued her jealous from the manuscript, so far as we have pling of the western country. The Aears, and were, perhaps, the sole cause perused it, to have been admirably fit-borigines probably constituted a part of of Mary's misfortunes. Elizabeth, con- ted, both by taste and education, for the some such nation existing in eastern versing one day with Melville, ambas-task which he commenced; and to which Asia, and were forced to escape to this sador from Scotland, asked him if Mary | we understand that he devoted several continent by the encroachment of some was not a finer woman than herself: years of toilsome and expensive research. such powerful invading foe. the cautious courtier, unwilling to of- We shall only add, that any subscrip- said that this was probably a fact. I fend, and wishing to avoid a direct an- tions (1 vol. 8vo, price $2.) which may venture to add, that it was most cerswer, replied that Elizabeth was the be transmitted to the publishers of the tainly the fact in regard to the Aborifinest woman in England, as Mary was Port Folio, shall be faithfully applied. gines. the finest woman in Scotland. This Upon the fairest computation, admit- It is a very general opinion, prevailanswer did not satisfy Elizabeth, who ting that the Aborigines came to the ing in the western country, that there wishing to gratify her vanity, by hear-western country a thousand or twelve is ample proof that the country in geing an acknowledgment of her own su- hundred years ago, we have then before neral was once inhabited by a civilized periority, again pressed Melville for a us a period of sufficient extent to em- and agricultural people. This very ge more decided reply; who confessed that brace all that is requisite to support the neral consent we are disposed to reject, he thought Mary a finer woman than supposition that the Aborigines were the and consider an innocent opinion in itherself. This reply, as unexpected as descendants of a civilized people in A-self, but we have not yet obtained satisit was true, greatly chagrined Elizabeth. sia: a people who had made great ad- factory reasons to believe that the counThe goodness of Mary's heart corres-vancements in civilization and the arts, try in general, or to any great extent, ponded with the beauty of her person, but who were probably devastated, and has been adorned with the improveand the charms of her wit. Though al- forced to fly, by the sudden encroachments and habitations of men living in ways persecuted, she was always toler- ment of a foe. We shall readily per- a civilized and permanent state of soant; to the inconstancy of her enemies ceive, that, in this case, such a people ciety. The Aborigines probably adshe opposed a firm and steady adher- would perform a rapid migration, and vanced as far, in the improvements of ence to her own engagements :-in fine, fly from their enemies as far as their de- particular portions or districts of the she was destined to be equally celebrat- sire of safety should dictate. It is not country, as their knowledge of agriculed for her wit, her beauty, and her in any degree surprising, that they ture, their implements of husbandry, and misfortunes. should, in like manner, escape to this their temporary residence would allow. To testify her deep regret at leaving continent, bringing with them that ci- The face of the country since it was her connections in France, she compos-vilization and that knowledge to which visited by the Aborigines, and since ed a farewell address to that coun- they had arrived. The great antiquity their demise, has undergone great try which serve as a proof of her changes. It is to be remarked, that the poetical talents. oldest trees now standiug cannot be pronounced coeval with the extinction of the Aborigines. Of the Aborigines of the Western Country of America. (From the Port Folio.) which is manifested by the most strik- The successive generations of men It is an opinion prevailing among who have inhabited the eastern parts of some, that the Aborigines crossed the Asia, were distinguished, for centuries, Allegheny, and proceeded down the THE publisher of the Port Folio, some by rapid advancements in civilization Ohio river; but nothing is more incretime since, announced his intention of and the arts, and on a sudden subjected dible. Some attention to the ancient printing a curious and learned work on to a great reverse. By the encroach- works on the river has led us to notice the antiquities of the western part of ment of some barbarous foe, or some that the works, at different positions, our country, by Henry Frost, A. M. neighbouring robber, they have been are not more or less perfect. It is vain The proposals had no sooner been sub- forced to renounce the possession of their to suppose that the works lower down mitted to the public, than a powerful privileges, or escape for their lives. are less perfect, and were therefore appeal to his kindness and his sense of Some of the most desert provinces in built by a people who migrated westjustice, was made by the friends of the Asia," says the historian of Catharine ward, or down the river. reverend Dr. John P. Campbell. They the second, have been repeatedly the stated that the materials for this work seats of arts, arms, commerce, and litehad been collected by this gentleman, rature. These potent and civilized naand that they had been obtained, under tions have repeatedly perished, for want false pretences, from his widow, by Mr. of a union or system of policy. Some Frost. The MSS. were therefore im- Scythian, or other barbarian, has been mediately placed in the hands of one of suffered unnoticed to subdue his neighher friends, who promises to prepare bouring tribes; each new conquest was Again, it is a current opinion, that the first inhabitants of the western country were white people, and therefore cannot be denominated Indians. Our readers will recollect, and may have noticed, that there are distinguishing shades of white and black within the extent of our own country; and that there are those among December 6, 1817.] Of the Aborigines of the Western Country of America. above tradition. 153 express us who, by birth, or physical causes, are | versation with the chief of the Kaskas- [ ancient tribe of the Sacks, who exceedingly dark. It is hence not in-kias, understood him to say, that a very ed some astonishment that any person dispensible that the Aborigines should remarkable fortification, to which they should live in Kentucky. They said be a white people, strictly speaking, in referred, was the house of his fathers. the country had been the scene of much order to account for their improvements, This is understood to signify a reveren-blood, and was filled with the manes of or their knowledge of the arts. The in- tial and general declaration of the same its butchered inhabitants. He stated habitants of Asia, and of the Asiatic con- origin. also, that the people who inhabited this tinent in general, are allowed to be dark- Mr. Thomas Bodley was informed by country were white, and possessed such er than the inhabitants of these Ameri- Indians of different tribes north west of arts as were unknown by the Indians. can states, while at the same time they the Ohio, that they had understood from Colonel McKee, who commanded on likewise are denominated a white people. their old men, and that it had been a the Kenhawa when Cornstalk was inThe city of Pekin is nearly upon the tradition among their several nations, humanly murdered, had frequent consame latitude with Philadelphia, and yet that Kentucky had been settled by versation with that chief respecting the the citizens of Pekin are strongly shaded whites, and that they had been extermi-people who had constructed the ancient compared with the Philadelphians. The nated by war. They were of opinion forts. He stated that it was a current Aborigines, for aught we know, might that the old fortifications, now to be seen and assured tradition, that Ohio and have sustained a lighter complexion than in Kentucky and Ohio, were the pro- Kentucky had been once settled by those Indians who contributed to their ductions of those white inhabitants. white people, who were possessed of destruction, or than the ancestors of the Wappockanitta, a Shawnee chief, near a arts which the Indians did not know. present race of Indians; and might, on hundred and twenty years old, living That after many sanguinary contests, that account, have been denominated by on the Auglaze river, confirmed the they were exterminated. Colonel M. those Indians a white people. There inquired why the Indians had not learncannot be a doubt but that the same An old Indian, in conversation with ed these arts of the white people? He country, at different, and very distant Colonel James F. Moore, of Kentucky, replied indefinitely, relating that the periods of time, may be inhabited by, informed him that the western country, great spirit had once given the Indians or produce a race of people differing and particularly Kentucky, had once a book which taught them all these arts, very materially in colour. The climate, been inhabited by white people, but that but that they had lost it, and had never and local or physical causes, may be so they were exterminated by the Indians. since regained the knowledge of them. changed in the term of a thousand years, That the last battle was fought at the Col. M. inquired particularly whether as to produce several degrees of shade falls of Ohio, and that the Indians suc- he knew what people it was who made upon the human countenance. The ceeded in driving the Aborigines into a so many graves on the Ohio, and at northern parts of Asia are supposed by small island below the rapids, where other places? He declared that he did some to be much colder now than they the whole of them were cut to pieces. not know, and remarked that was not were but a few centuries or years ago; He said it was an undoubted fact, hand- his nation, or any he had been acquaintand that but a few centuries have elapsed, ed down by tradition, and that the co-ed with. Col. M. asked him if he could since the northern regions were more lonel would have ocular proof of it when tell who made those old forts, which dishabitable on this very account. We sus- the waters of the Ohio became low. This played so much skill in fortifying. He pect, however, that the Aborigines were was found to be correct, on examining answered that he did not know, but that in general, and in no other sense, a Sandy Island, when the waters of the a story had been handed down from a white people, than of any of the proper river had fallen, as a multitude of hu- very long ago people, that there had inhabitants of Asia at the present time. man bones were discovered. The same been a nation of white people inhabiting We likewise suspect that the Aborigines Indian expressed his astonishment that the country who made the graves and were denominated a white people by the white people could live in a country once forts. He also said, that some Indians, present race of Indians, solely or prin- the scene of blood. The Indian chief who had travelled very far west or cipally, in consequence of that distinc- called Tobacco, told General Clarke, of north-west, had found a nation of peotion which they possessed in the view Louisville, that the battle of Sandy ple, who lived as Indians generally of the Indians, by their works, or the Island decided finally the fall of Ken- do, although of a different complexion. knowledge and skill displayed in these tucky, with its ancient inhabitants. Ge- John Cushen, an Indian of truth and works. These Indians having been ac-neral Clarke says that Kentucky, in the respectability, having pointed to the customed to pay respect to Americans language of the Indians, signifies the large mound in the town of Chillicothe, and Europeans as white people, appro- river of blood. observed to a gentleman, that it was a priated naturally the same respect and In addition to the proof of a great great curiosity. To this the gentleman title to the Aborigines. The Indians battle near the falls of Ohio, it is said accorded, and said, the Indians built universally disclaim these ancient works by General Clarke, of Louisville, that that. No, said he, it was made by white and monuments, which are attributed to there was at Clarkesville, a great bury-folks, for Indians never make forts or the Aborigines, and allege that these ing ground, two or three hundred yards mounds-this country was inhabited by works were erected by white people. in length. This is likewise confirmed white people once, for none but white It may not be improper, therefore, to by Major John Harrison, who received people make forts. offer the reader several traditions which the tradition from an Indian woman of relate to this point, and which may at great age. least be found an entertainment. Colonel Joseph Davies, when at St. General Clarke, of Louisville, in con-Louis in 1800, saw the remains of an In addition to the remarks which we have made on the Asiatic origin of the Aborigines, we add, that such an origin is by far the most natural, and the most 154 Excursion to Glasgow by the Coach and Canal Boat. Excursion to Glasgow by the Coach and the Canal boat. December 6, 1817. accordant with the progressive move-in her character; and the usual ques- The conversation for the last fifteen ments of the human family since the tions how far each intended to journey, miles affording very little encouragedeluge. This progress in Asia, has were put and partly answered. Our ment to resume my place in the inside been uniformly eastward and northward witty friend, pent up in the corner, turn-of the vehicle, I determined, as the day from the Euphrates. ed out, from his own information, to was fine, to join the society of the more (To be continued.) have just returned from Sweden, where exalted passengers. Having reached he had resided for several years; and the the top of the coach, I took my seat near desire which he often expressed to taste a weather-beaten tar, who was perched whiskey and Scotch broth, shewed pretty on the largest trunk he could find, and THE eastern extremity of Prince's clearly that he had reached his native which he called the round house. Astreet usually presents a busy scene a- soil. I made several attempts to draw larmed at shoals and lea-shores, he had bout the time of the daily departure of from him some information relative to selected it, he said, for the purpose of the numerous coaches, which start as it the country he had left; but I could keeping a good look-out. But Jack, as were from the same point, and direct learn nothing worthy of notice except I found from his own story, had not altheir course to every quarter of the king- that the common daisy, bellis perennis, ways been on the watch. He had been dom; and to the spectator who has an is not indigenous to Sweden. How far nearly twenty years in the British navy, opportunity of taking a nearer view of this was from his own observation, or had fought at Aboukir, Copenhagen, what is passing, it is not destitute of from the remarks of others, I was not Trafalgar, and had contributed his share considerable interest, in watching the anxious to inquire. to other victories, which threw the emotions excited by the regrets of part- A ride of nearly three hours brought highest splendour on the naval glory of ing friends, the anticipated prospect of us safely to Linlithgow, a town of great Britain. He had been long on board others in meeting with theirs, the sel- antiquity, often the residence of the so- a frigate, which was successful in taking fishness of some in studying their own vereigns of Scotland; and the ruins of many valuable prizes; and what, with accommodation only, and the pleasing the palace, in a conspicuous station in prize money and wages, which he had expression of kindness and civility in the vicinity, still form a prominent fea- little opportunity of spending, and which others, while the superintendants and ture in the surrounding scenery. Re- had accumulated to a considerable sum, conductors of the machines seem to collecting that the famous Regent Mur- he was master of more than a hundred contemplate in the number and quality ray was shot by Hamilton of Bothwell-guineas when he was discharged from of their passengers the scantiness or li- haugh from a window in this place, I the service. Although he was someberality of their perquisites. employed the few minutes, during what taciturn, and generally expressed Being seated in one of the vehicles which the horses were changed, to enwhich was destined to lock No. 16, I quire whether the house still existed, or began to survey the companions of my whether the spot where it stood was still journey. The first who attracted my pointed out; but my inquiries from the notice was a young lady, who I suspect casual passenger on the street were ed had just parted with a fine looking fruitless. The last person I addressed young man holding the place of more indeed, seemed to have the story emthan friend in her affections. After we bodied in something like a legendary started she looked several times from the tale, which had a reference to that event; window and waved her hand, while a but the coach drove up and cut short sweet smile beamed on a most prepos- his narrative. The Regent was on his sessing countenance; but when the ob- way from Stirling to Edinburgh, was ject on which she doated disappeared, warned of his danger; but, either deher altered look, and eyes filled with spising it, or disbelieving that any one tears, sufficiently indicated the force of would attempt so atrocious a deed in the emotion that agitated her bosom. broad day, proceeded by the route "That is your sweetheart," said a rough which he was warned to avoid, and voice from the opposite corner of the coach." Is it not now," he added, in a softer tone." That's mair nor ye should ken," retorted an elderly lady. "I know it is," he replied. "Then," returned the same female, " ye may save yeʼrsel the trouble of speering.” The commencement of our conversation, I feared, augured little that was agreeable. But a few jolts of the coach seemed to have the effect of composing the somewhat ruffled spirits of two of the party; the young lady, with the exception of an occasional sigh, recovered an easy gaiety, that apparently was a pleasing feature himself in the abrupt manner which is habitual with his compeers, I found that I had gained on his good graces, particularly when I overhead him inquiring who the gentleman was who had gone below, and adding, that he was not a starch, proud fellow, as I came down from the coach for a few minutes, when it stopped for the delivery of a parcel, and the refreshment of the guard and driver with whisky, for they had now travelled four miles from the place where they had last indulged in the fiery beverage. When I ventured to say to my naval friend, that I hoped he had saved a large portion of this sum which he had won in such hard service, met his fate. In one of the apartments and at such dreadful hazards. Why, of the palace, as tradition reports, an no, says he, not much. You have still apparition presented itself to James IV, reserved fifty pounds. O no, master, by before the disastrous battle of Flodden, the time I reach home I shan't have five when the king and the flower of the no-pence. Struck at such improvidence bility were slain on the field; and in and dissipation, I questioned him more another was born the beautiful queen closely; and, in his own style and manMary, whose dying father James V, it ner, he told me that on his arrival at is said, predicted the miseries that await- Portsmouth, he and a party of his shiped the kingdom, and whose ill-fated mates made a land voyage to London. life was a continued scene of misfortune. They had equipped a coach and four The palace was converted into barracks for the trip; had appointed the proper for the king's troops in 1746, when, officers, and taken on board fully more either by accident or negligence, it was than the complement of men, with a li burnt down. beral allowance of stores and provisions; December 6, 1817.] Excursion to Glasgow by the Coach and Canal Boat. and he himself was captain of the main top. The voyage was unlucky; they met with a great deal of foul weather, and encountered many hard squalls; and at last the frigate, as he called her, which was too weak for so rough a sea, was totally shipwrecked. In plain language, the coach, after being several times overset, was at last broken to pieces, some of his messmates were left on the road with broken limbs, one horse was killed, and another was so knocked up, that it was not expected to survive; and by some contract, either express or implied, the simple and thoughtless tars paid the whole. A large share of the expense of the voyage had fallen on Jack; for, on his arrival in London, his money was reduced to fifty guineas; and, after ten days dissipation in the capital, he reached Leith with five pounds, which another ramble with some old shipmates, which he met with there, reduced in two days to the miserable pittance already alluded to; so that he could literally and truly join in the song, 155 ter in an engagement with the rebels. landed, and going off in all directions, The river Carron, not far distant, is me- soon disappeared. We were now in morable on account of the meeting of progress towards Glasgow, dragged, as Bruce and Wallace, when the patriotic the sailor expressed it, at the tails of two hero roused the dormant energies of the horses, and going, I suppose, at the rate servile instrument of Edward; for Bruce of five or six miles an hour. These then fought under the banners of the boats are handsomely fitted up; the English monarch to subdue his country-cabin spacious and elegant; and the men; and brought him to assert and fi-acommodation in all other respects exnally to establish the independence of cellent. For the instruction and amusethe kingdom. Who that cherishes a ment of the passengers, a small library spark of patriotism in his bosom, or what has been provided; and as I was inadmirer of the noble sentiments of our formed, was first suggested by Mr. favourite bard, in his address of Bruce Muckersy, the respectable clergyman of to his army before the battle of Ban- West Calder, and the author of the nockburn, Letters of M. Gener, on Life and Man"Scots wha hae wi' Wallace bled;", ners, who presented a copy of his own can recal to mind that decisive victo-book for the use of the public. As I ry, without feeling his heart beat high, had not seen that work, I resolved to without having his thoughts elevated? devote the spare time which I could The boat had made its first appear- now command to peruse some parts of ance just as we returned to the banks it: having taken it from the shelf, and of the canal; and to those who had laid it on the table, I found that it seen it for the first time, which was the opened at the letter on marriage. This case with myself, certainly presented a letter, as well as several others, I read very singular spectacle. Raised high with great satisfaction; but when I above the water, and crowded with opened it a second time, the same letter “A handkerchief held all the treasure I had ;" passengers of all descriptions, it resem- presented itself, and observing more for his whole wardrobe, consisting seem-bled a moving citadel, having the ram- narrowly, I perceived the leaves which ingly of a single shirt, was wrapped up parts covered with defenders. With no contained this attractive subject were in one, and, I suspect, with an oaken less astonishment, I perceived my friend much more soiled than any other part saplin was his whole property. the sailor eyeing the approaching vehicle, of the book; whether by the fair hands The adventures of the naval hero and I heard him mutter once or twice of the female passengers, or by the were scarcely finished when we entered what a log! what a painted tub! I ruder handling of the other sex, it Falkirk, through which, without stop-asked him no questions on the subject would be useless to conjecture. The ping, we proceeded to the canal, along after these contemptuous expressions; dinner occupied part of our time; and whose banks we hurried to lock No. for, like all men of narrow thought and altho' it was to be considered only as a 16, where I observed a pretty little limited information, he was busy in a cold collation, yet it was sufficiently sloop of forty or fifty tons burden, on false estimate, while even in fancy, he comfortable. Spirits I think are excludwhich Jack expressed his regret to see could for a moment bring into compari-ed from being drunk on board, with a nice sea-boat confined to a ditch. The son the noblest effort of human genius, the intention no doubt to prevent excess canal-boat had not yet arrived, and, as displayed in the construction and ma- and its consequences; but I saw no it was supposed some time would e-nagement of a first rate ship of war, with limit set to the use of wine by those lapse before it appeared, I accompanied the commodious, and, in its own place, who can afford and choose to indulge the Swedish merchant to the village of equally useful fabric of a canal boat. in it; and it seems to have been forCamelon, where he proposed to resume The latter is as well fitted for traversing gotten that its effects are equally powerhis search for Scotch broth, but failing the stormy ocean, as the sails and rigg-ful, of which the present expedition in the attempt, although he exercised no ing of the former are suitable for inland furnished an example. small degree of industry in his inqui- navigation, Incongruous as this reflec- I repaired to the deck immediately ries at both public and private houses, tion may at first sight seem, yet it is not after dinner to enjoy the fine evening, he had recourse to a dose of whisky. unusual for ignorant and superficial ob- and was not a little struck at the change We now trode on classic ground. Old servers to overlook that aptitude, as it of the passengers, some dropping out at Camelon, near the present village, is may be called, which exists in the man- every two or three miles, while others supposed to have been a Roman station; ners and customs of mankind, as well took their places, and I observed that the The famous Roman wall, or Graham's as in the works of nature and art, and number increased greatly as we apdyke, which extended from the Forth to pronounce a thing to be true or false, proached to Glasgow. A Quaker made to the Clyde, passed along this track: right or wrong, as it happens to differ his appearance among others, and as the near the town of Falkirk the Scots, un- or to coincide with their peculiar views shades of night, and the coolness of the der their undaunted leader, Wallace, or habits of thinking. air came on, we found it necessary to were defeated by Edward I; and in But we must hurry on board. A few retire to the cabin. Our Swedish friend, January 1746, near the same place, the minutes only elapsed when the nume- and a petulant young man, travelling for royal army experienced a similar disas-rous passengers from Glasgow were some mercantile house, had indulged in 156 Excursion to Glasgow by the Coach and Canal boat. [December 6, 1817. The copious libations in the course of the af- which, it is obvious, from what appears on having a room within the house; ternoon, and I could perceive that they at no great distance from its banks, were but no such room was to be had; and, were disposed to be impertinent. Anxious in their original state, barren moors or with repeated assurances of the utmost to avoid an unpleasant rencontre, I had stagnant marshes. Such are the valuable quiet and the most perfect safety, I disrecourse to M. Gener, which as usual, consequences of facility of communica- missed my fears, turned the key, and preopened at the letter on marriage. The tion,-affording a ready access to the pared for bed. I was half undressed when Quaker, I found, was to be the object of means of amelioration, and presenting a I commenced a survey of the apartment, their mirth; and hearing them whisper, convenient market for the productions of and perceiving a large door which was "let us smoke the Quaker," my indig- the soil. not locked, I opened it, and, to my anation was roused, and I felt some diffi- The lights of the shops and the rattling stonishment and alarm, saw a man with culty in restraining myself from express- of the wheels indicated that the coach a red handkerchief wrapped round his ing it strongly against their impertinence in which we were packed at Port Dun- head, lying on a concealed bed. No and rudeness. The friend kept his eye das was on the streets of Glasgow; and long time elapsed, it may be readily besteadily on the book, and "like patience each, as inclination or convenience dic-lieved, till I resumed my habiliments, on a monument," heard all their taunts tated, was bawling out to the guard and presented myself in the kitchen; with unmoved features. This stoical where he desired to be set down. I and while I descended the stair, I felt apathy, which I believe is founded in had no choice, but to avoid the George some congratulation on a narrow escape principle with that society, had little Inn, for no other reason, than that it was from murder and robbery, in a house, tendency to repress my remonstrances. selected by the less agreeable companions the existence of which I had never I told them at last that their conduct of the journey. I named the Black heard of, and drawn to it by a man was highly censurable, and that I should Bull, or any quiet comfortable place. whom I had never before seen. appeal to the master of the boat whether The guard, a remarkably civil man, who whole train of previous circumstances they ought to be considered proper in- had accompanied us from Edinburgh, which now rushed on my mind seemed mates of the place which they now oc took the hint, and asked me if I prefer to lead to this dreadful result. Quescupied. But a better check was given red large or a small inn? With the tioning my hostess on this strange octo their misconduct, from a quarter requisites I have mentioned, it is a mat-currence, I was told, that the person where it was least expected. A voice ter of indifference, I replied, and on we I had seen was the guard of the coach, was heard from a corner, in a firm and drove, till we were near the cross, as I who had been my fellow traveller determined tone, declaring, "if so be as found in the morning, To a question I through the day, and I was assured that how you be gentlemen, you must move put, when I perceived myself at the top he would not disturb me. I again in upon deck till you learn to behave like of a long close or narrow entry, where sisted on having another room, which gentlemen." The heroes of raillery and we were going? the answer was, O, sir, was not to be had; or that my sleeping impertinence were confounded; they to an excellent house. Mounting the companion should remove to another bed, looked at each other, and I confess I stair, I was ushered into a cheerful kit- which was equally unattainable. It was was under some alarm that they were chen, from which a door led to a good now between eleven and twelve o'clock about to undergo some corporal chastise- parlour, while, by the landlady and her at night; a dead repose prevailed in the ment, when the speaker rose from his daughter, I was received with that kind neighbourhood where I was; I had once seat, and opening his great coat, disco- of ease and unaffected civility, which at determined to remove instantly from this vered a blue coat with metal buttons, once made me feel at home. I ordered seemingly suspicious place; but recol. and the impression of the anchor on supper, examined my bed-room, which lecting that the inns at this season were them. Whether this discovery was not was up stairs and seemed to be snug, and often crowded with travellers, I foresaw quite agreeable to the eye of the mer- clean, made a call for a few minutes, re- that a stranger dropping in from the cantile clerk I know not, but he very turned, and having finished a comfortable, street, at so late an hour, might find difsoon disappeared. His boon companion although a solitary meal, I thought my- ficulty of admission. My alarm subsided, began to apologize, when the news re- self fortunate in having escaped the my spirits grew more composed, and my sounded of our arrival at Port Dundas. bustle of a large establishment, prepared confidence in all the parties concerned All I could learn of our new acquaint- for bed. A light was ordered; I was in this little drama returned. The exance was, that he was a master's mate reconducted up stairs; but a singular planation given seemed to preclude all in the navy, and a bold, daring fellow. transformation seemed to have been ef- danger; I returned to my chamber; But in the confusion and darkness I fected in the course of little more than placed a chair as a guard on its sleeping could trace him no farther. He had an hour and a half. In short, I found prototype; secured my watch and mocome on board in the evening, and had myself in an apartment which entered ney under my pillow; and if I did not taken his station, unperceived, in the from a common stair, the dazzling lights pass an entirely sleepless night, my recorner of the cabin. of which, when I first arrived, had pose was not very profound. But if I The conveyance by the canal boat is made me overlook its topography and had gone to bed unacquainted with the undoubtedly less fatiguing; but the late connexion with my guardian friend's circumstances, and if my concealed inarrival at Glasgow has its inconveniences, small inn. The door was unlocked, the mate had uttered a deep groan in the and the expences upon the whole are not key was put into my hand, and I was dark and dead hour of the night, I leave much less. It is pleasing to observe the desired to turn it in the inside by way those who are less timid than myself to improvements which have followed the of security. At all this I was surprised, imagine what would have been my opening up of the country through complained to the landlady's daughter, alarm. which the canal passes, many tracts of who was my conductress, and insisted! |