be the better qualified to please the few customers she had, by her modesty, prudent behaviour, and unremitting attention to business obtained. Having sat a considerable time in the ball room, without being noticed by any one, she dropped a curtsy to some ladies she had before seen, who passed her; but being, like too many of the Scotch, filled with pride, did not deign to take the least notice of her. But providence generally rewards the virtuous. While she was sitting, escorted by none, and, because she was poor, despised by those that knew her, a young gentleman, with a livery servant, who came to the city that evening, and inquiring if there were any amusements in town, heard of the ball; and, through the influence of his pocket, got admission to it. Looking round him, and seeing every body some way or other engaged, except the young girl, he went to her and sat down beside her. Finding her handsome, and plainly, though neatly dressed, as also extremely modest, while many of the other ladies seemed forward, he asked her to dance. If he was pleased with her before, he was more so now; and redoubled his attention. She, however, soon retired, which he thought was only for a few minutes; but, as she did not return, the gentleman found himself extremely uneasy. He inquired of every body, but none present could tell him either her name, or where she resided. One or two of the squires daughters, who looked down on her with a species of contempt, were nettled that a young man, so good looking, and so accomplished, should make such a fuss about a plain dressed, poor girl, said, they knew nothing of her. Vexed that he had not so

licited more earnestly her address, which she had twice refused, he returned to his quarters, almost distracted. After hunting about for some time, he found her out, and alone, in a clean neat garret, busy at her needle. Without telling her his anxiety, he had some conversation with her, and found her not only of the strictest virtue, but that she had purposely avoided giving him her address, and informing him she was leaving the ball-room; as, if he had retired with her, some in the ball-room might have thought it, as she herself did, improper: and, as she wished to live virtuously, she also, at the same time, wished and was determined to avoid, as far as she could, even the appearances of evil. After repeated trials to shake the pillars of this amiable young woman's virtue, in the course of several visits, without effect, he asked her in marriage; and she, who once lived in a garret, now rolls in her carriage, has a train of servants at her command, and is beloved and esteemed by all that know her.

The half of the people of Glasgow, at least of the lower classes, appear to be Highlanders. This is quite apparent from their very visages. The physiognomies of people are formed, in the course of ages, by causes physical, and causes moral. The physiognomies of the Highlanders, being constantly in the open air, exposed to the accumulated heats of a sun, in the sun mer months, long above the horizon, and to the autumnal, winter, and vernal blasts, have acquired a kind of grin; while, from an apprehension of danger, and a resolution to defend themselves, they have contracted, at the same time, an air of vigilance and suspicion,

an air

mingled with an expression of ferocity and defiance. The present race of Highlanders are not very apprehensive of danger, and are not, of course, reduced to the necessity of putting on of defiance. But their fathers and grandfathers were. And they have not yet opened their minds and countenances to the safety, confidence, good humour, and expansion of the English and Lowland Scots. The visages on the eastern coasts of the north of Scotland, as already observed, have the high cheek bones, and also the red hair and complexions of the Scandinavians. The western Highlanders are chubby, bluff, or fleshy, in their countenances, and have black hair; not unfrequently curling. All this is quite consonant with the observation of Tacitus.*

A few years ago, the magistrates were obliged to cut down the rows of beeches, hedges, shrubbery, &c. that surrounded the green, and to remove the seats, placed here and there under the trees, for the accommodation of invalids and others; as, generally after it grew dark, and during the whole night, the worthless part of the inhabitants practised there every species of impurity and lewdness. Petitions from the inhabitants, that lived near the green, representing the shameful practices carried on under the trees and hedges, induced the magistrates to cut them down; and it is to be lamented, that, even yet, at all hours of the night, scenes of lewdness are so often to be seen. St. James's and Hyde Park, at London have not more need to be purified from

*In vita Agricol. cap. xi.

wickedness than the green of Glasgow. Money, there, as about London, Edinburgh, and other places, too often, it seems, stops the mouths of the watchmen. I do not pretend to develope the cause; but certainly there seems to be an extraordinary degree of shameless lewdness among the lower classes in Glasgow. The very lowest class, as porters, labourers, watchmen, &c. are, for the most part, either Highlanders, or the descendants of Highlanders. In this class, too, are not a few Irish. But, to balance this last circumstance, a great number of Irish young gentlemen resort to the university. Ireland has the honour of having given a very celebrated professor to this university, and a still more celebrated genius, for a rector. I need not say that I allude to professor Hutchinson and Mr. Edmund Burke.

BANKS OF THE CLYDE.

I had now staid long enough at Glasgow to view the college, the glass-works, the iron-works, and other manufactories, and to become acquainted with the strange medley of society here: but, being unwilling to leave the western side of Scotland, without taking a view of Bothwell Castle, the palace of Hamilton, and the falls of the Clyde, I mounted my horse, and, at day-break on a morning in October, when the weather in Scotland is commonly fine, and the atmosphere clear, set out on the road to Hamilton, a distance from Glasgow of ten or twelve miles. The land on either side of the Clyde is beautifully dotted with gentlemen's seats, with surrounding or adjoining plantations, and in the

highest state of cultivation. For the greater part of the way, the river is beautifully fringed with wood, About six or seven miles from Glasgow is BothwellBridge, where a battle was fought in 1651, between the Scotch covenanters and the loyalists. The military movements of the contending parties were imitated with wonderful exactness by the school-boys in many parts of Scotland; and still I believe the game, or play of Bothwell-Bridge, is a favourite diversion with the school-boys on the Clyde, the Forth, and the Erne.

About two miles from Bothwell-Bridge, is Bothwell Castle, an antient seat of the Doug lasses. This was a massy and really stupendous structure. The walls, a great part of which are still standing, were sixty feet high, and eighteen thick. In one part, this enormous mass, crushing its foundations, though of rock, fell, walls and rock together, into the Clyde. The breach in the foundation was repaired, and the wall rebuilt. The castle formed a quadrangle, with a round turret at each corner, three of which are still entire: but all the internal part has been demolished, or fallen into ruin. In the centre stood the citadel and place of arms, which is yet entire. The windows of the castle look, ing all of them into the square, or area, were placed very high; the bottoms of them being at least fifteen feet from the ground: a precaution, no doubt, against arrows, or other missile weapons. This also accounts for the elevated position, as well as the narrowness of the windows, in all antient edifices: such as churches, and public buildings of all kinds. It became the fashion even in private houses. Nor is it till lately that this fashion has been exchanged