e tea. We found that she was the daughter of our host, and
desired her to make it. Her conversation, like her appearance, was
gentle and pleasing. We knew that the girls of the Highlands are all
gentlewomen, and treated her with great respect, which she received as
customary and due, and was neither elated by it, nor confused, but repaid
my civilities without embarassment, and told me how much I honoured her
country by coming to survey it.

She had been at Inverness to gain the common female qualifications, and
had, like her father, the English pronunciation. I presented her with a
book, which I happened to have about me, and should not be pleased to
think that she forgets me.

In the evening the soldiers, whom we had passed on the road, came to
spend at our inn the little money that we had given them. They had the
true military impatience of coin in their pockets, and had marched at
least six miles to find the first place where liquor could be bought.
Having never been before in a place so wild and unfrequented, I was glad
of their arrival, because I knew that we had made them friends, and to
gain still more of their good will, we went to them, where they were
carousing in the barn, and added something to our former gift. All that
we gave was not much, but it detained them in the barn, either merry or
quarrelling, the whole night, and in the morning they went back to their
work, with great indignation at the bad qualities of whisky.

We had gained so much the favour of our host, that, when we left his
house in the morning, he walked by us a great way, and entertained us
with conversation both on his own condition, and that of the country. His
life seemed to be merely pastoral, except that he differed from some of
the ancient Nomades in having a settled dwelling. His wealth consists of
one hundred sheep, as many goats, twelve milk-cows, and twenty-eight
beeves ready for the drover.

From him we first heard of the general dissatisfaction, which is now
driving the Highlanders into the other hemisphere; and when I asked him
whether they would stay at home, if they were well treated, he answered
with indignation, that no man willingly left his native country. Of the
farm, which he himself occupied, the rent had, in twenty-five years, been
advanced from five to twenty pounds, which he found himself so little
able to pay, that he would be glad to try his fortune in some other
place. Yet he owned the reasonablenes