But the market
is forestalled. There is Mrs Grant of Laggan, has
drawn the manners, customs, and superstitions of
the mountains in their natural unsophisticated
state;* and my friend, General Stewart of Garth,*
* Letters from the Mountains, 3 vols.---Essays on the Superstitions
of the Highlanders---The Highlanders, and other
Poems, &c.
* The gallant and amiable author of the History of the
Highland Regiments, in whose glorious services his own
share had been great, went out Governor of St Lucie in 1828,
and died in that island on the I8th of December 1829,---no
man more regretted, or perhaps by a wider circle of friends
and acquaintance.
in giving the real history of the Highland regiments,
has rendered any attempt to fill up the
sketch with fancy-colouring extremely rash and
precarious. Yet I, too, have still a lingering fancy
to add a stone to the cairn; and without calling
in imagination to aid the impressions of juvenile
recollection, I may just attempt to embody one or
two scenes illustrative of the Highland character,
and which belong peculiarly to the Chronicles of
the Canongate, to the greyheaded eld of whom
they are as familiar as to Chrystal Croftangry.
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