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loss and gain, they are preserved in the only blessed, the only independent state that golden mean which the wise Agur so earnestly and rationally petitioned of his God that he might enjoy: " Two things " have I required of thee; deny me them not be- " fore I die. Remove me far from vanity and " lies; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed " me with food convenient for me; lest I be full, " and deny thee, and say Who is the Lord? or lest " I be poor and steal, and take the name of my " God in vain." Removed by their situation and circumstances from the ever-shifting scene of fa- shionable life, their manners continue primitive, unabraded by the collision of general intercourse; their hospitality is unbounded and sincere; their sentiments simple; and their language scriptural. " Go," said an estatesman to a friend of mine, whom he had entertained for some days in his house, " Go to the vale on the other side of yon " mountain, to the house of such an estatesman, " and tell him you came from me. I know him " not; but he will receive you kindly, for our sheep " mingle upon the mountains"

Our return led us over Grey's-Bridge, by the north-western side of the lake, which, we re- marked, would be a better approach to Borrodale than the opposite road, as the crags and precipices,

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