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128 ture between dignity and submission," had in vain pleaded for mercy.

From Slains Castle our travellers drove a short distance along the coast to the famous Bullers of Buchan—"a sight," writes Johnson, "which no man can see with indifference, who has either sense of danger or delight in rarity." Boswell describes the spot as:—



As the weather was calm they took a boat and rowed through the archway into the cauldron. "It was a place," writes Johnson,