s fall is
not much admired or spoken of by travellers; you have never a full,
breast view of it; it does not make a complete self-satisfying place, an
abode of its own, as a perfect waterfall seems to me to do; but the
river, down which you look through a long vista of steep and ruin-like
rocks, the roaring of the waterfall, and the solemn evening lights, must
have been most impressive. One of the rocks on the near bank, even in
broad daylight, as we saw it the next morning, is exactly like the
fractured arch of an abbey. With the lights and shadows of evening upon
it, the resemblance must have been much more striking.

William's guide was a pretty boy, and he was exceedingly pleased with
him. Just as they were quitting the waterfall, William's mind being full
of the majesty of the scene, the little fellow pointed to the top of a
rock, 'There's a fine slae-bush there.' 'Ay,' said William, 'but there
are no slaes upon it,' which was true enough; but I suppose the child
remembered the slaes of another summer, though, as he said, he was but
'half seven years old,' namely, six and a half. He conducted William to
the other fall, and as they were going along a narrow path, they came to
a small cavern, where William lost him, and looking about, saw his pretty
figure in a sort of natural niche fitted for a statue, from which the boy
jumped out laughing, delighted with the success of his trick. William
told us a great deal about him, while he sat by the fire, and of the
pleasure of his walk, often repeating, 'I wish you had been with me.'
Having no change, he gave the boy sixpence, which was certainly, if he
had formed any expectations at all, far beyond them; but he received it
with the utmost indifference, without any remark of surprise or pleasure;
most likely he did not know how many halfpence he could get for it, and
twopence would have pleased him more. My little girl was delighted with
the sixpence I gave her, and said she would buy a book with it on Monday
morning. What a difference between the manner of living and education of
boys and of girls among the lower classes of people in towns! she had
never seen the Falls of the Clyde, nor had ever been further than the
porter's lodge; the boy, I daresay, knew every hiding-place in every
accessible rock, as well as the fine 'slae bushes' and the nut trees.

SECOND WEEK.

_Sunday_, _August_ 21_st_.--The morning was very hot, a morning to tempt
us to linger by