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On the 6th May 1787, after spending about six months in the eapitalcapital [sic], Burns departed from Edinburgh, in eompanycompany [sic] with a friend, on a eountrycountry [sic] excursion before he should return to Ayrshire. His route was southward, and he visited in the eoursecourse [sic] of his tour several distinguished families. He returned to Mauehline on the 8th July, where he remained but a few days, and undertook another tour through the north. In this exeursionexcursion [sic] he was received with much courtesy at the houses of many eminent persons— among these were the noble family of Argyle. On these oeeasionsoccasions [sic] he eomposedcomposed [sic] some of his most admired lyrics. After another visit to his family at Mossgiel he repaired, in MarehMarch [sic] 1788, to Dalswinton, in Dumfriesshire, the resideneeresidence [sic] of Mr Miller, with whom he was in treaty for the lease of a farm on his estate. During part of the intervening months he had been oceasionallyoccasionally [sic] in Edinburgh, as he says, to adjust matters with his bookseller, although it is pretty clear that a visit to some of his old jovial companions was the true eausecause [sic]. After a good deal of time lost between the arranging of his lease at Dalswinton and settling with his bookseller, a period which from different eausescauses [sic] he seems to have spent rather wearily, his affairs eamecame [sic] at last to assume something like a definite shape.