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poem commences with an invocation of Albania, the Genius of Scotland—Allusion to Dunedin and the Border land, places under the peculiar guardian ship of the goddess—Berwick, Man, and the English border, places no longer under her influence—The country invincible—The favourite of the sun, whose beams linger all the night on her mountains—Beloved of the ocean, who rolls his finny shoals to her coasts—The whale—Different species of fishes that frequent the coasts of Scotland—The seal—The salmon—The production of salt from the sea—Coal—Sources of patriotic pride—The Scotish fair—The land free from robbers—from wild beasts—from venomous reptiles—Different kinds of birds which abound in Scotland—Rabbits of Shetland—Deer—Invisible deer-hunting.—The poem concludes with an address to Albania, and a characteristic enumeration of the Isles of Columba, first subdued by the Scots.