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with the side of his large knife, and asked her name, to which she answered as when in possession of her senses; a sure proof that the cure was accomplished, for during this malady those afflicted with it never answer to their Christian name. She was now taken up in a very weak condition and carried home; and a priest came and baptized her again, as if she had just come into the world or assumed a new nature. Mr. Pearce had soon afterwards a less agreeable opportunity of becoming acquainted with the characteristics of this strange disease. His own wife was seized with some of the most alarming symptoms; but having a strong suspicion that this ailment sprang from the weak minds of women, who were gratified with the display, the rich dresses, and music, which accompany the cure, he determined not to yield to her fancy. He thought the application of a whip might be attended with a good effect, and actually had recourse to a few strokes when there was no one present to witness the proceeding. But what was his surprise when, instead of profiting by his skill, she appeared like a corpse, her joints stiffened, and life seemed to become extinct. Alarmed and grieved at the want of success, he immediately consented to pay for the band, the drink, and the other apparatus used in similar cases; and the result proved a complete reward for his connubial affection. "One day," says he, "I went privately with a companion to see my wife dance, and kept at a short distance, as I was ashamed to go near the crowd. On looking steadfastly upon her, while dancing and jumping, more like a deer than a human being, I said that it was certainly not my wife; at which my companion burst into a fit of laughter, from which he could scarcely refrain all the way home.

DESCRIPTION OF DUBLIN.

By an American Tourist.

TIGRE is the name of a province in Abyssinia. In Volume XH. of the Edinburgh Cabinet Library (Nubia and Abyssinia), which is just published, we find the following marvellous relation of a singular kind of nervous malady to which females are especially liable. We should like to hear what medical men think of this local disease. One of the most annoying of the Abyssinian superstitions is the belief or affectation of being possessed with a certain kind of evil spirit, which cannot be expelled in any other way than by music and dancing. This complaint is called tigré-ter, and is more common among women than among men. It seizes the body as if with a violent fever, then turns to a lingering sickness, which, unless the proper remedy can be procured, often reduces the patient to the greatest extremity. During the paroxysm, the speech is changed to a kind of stammering, which no one can understand but those who have been afflicted with the same disorder. When the relatives find the malady established, they join together to defray the expenses of curing it; the first step towards which is to procure the assistance of a learned dofter or priest, who reads the gospel of St. John, and drenches the sufferer with cold water for the space of seven days an application that very often proves fatal. A more effectual remedy is found to consist in a band of trumpeters, drummers, and fifers, a full supply of liquor, and an assemblage of juvenile personages to enjoy these means of hilarity. Pearce once saw a young woman who had the misfortune to be afflicted with this disorder, and, as she was the wife of an intimate friend, he visited her very frequently. Her voice was so much affected that she could not be understood by her nearest relations: and it was observed that the sight of a book or a priest threw her into great agony, during which, a torrent of tears, like blood mingled with water, flowed from her eyes. After allowing her to linger three months in this miserable condition, the husband resolved to employ the wonted remedy, however expensive and inconvenient to him. For this purpose he collected a band of music, and likewise borrowed from all his neighbours their silver ornaments, with which to load her arms, legs, and neck. The evening this singular experiment was tried, our countryman attended to give his assistance. About two minutes after the trumpets commenced, he observed her shoulders begin to move, and soon afterwards, her head and breast, and in less than a quarter of an hour, she sat up on the couch. The wild look she had, though she occasionally smiled, made him withdraw to a greater distance, being alarmed to see a person reduced almost to a skeleton exert such strength; her head, neck, shoulders, hands, and feet, all moved to the sound of the instruments, and in this manner she proceeded for some time, till at length she started up, and stood on the floor. Afterwards she began to dance and to jump about, and at last as the music and noise of the singers increased, she often sprang three feet from the ground. When the band slackened, she appeared quite out of temper, but when it became louder she smiled and was delighted. During this violent exercise she never shewed the least symptom of being tired, though the musicians were thoroughly exhausted; and whenever they stopped to take a little rest, she manifested signs of the utmost discontent and impatience. Next day, according to the prescribed method in the cure of this disorder, she was taken to the market-place, where several jars of maize were provided for the respective performers. When the crowd had assembled, and the music was ready, she advanced into the centre, where she began to dance and throw herself into the maddest postures imaginable, and continued to exert herself in the same manner throughout the whole day. Towards evening she was seen to drop the silver ornaments from her neck, arms, and legs, one at a time, so that in the course of three hours she had stripped herself of every article. As the sun went down she made a start with such swiftness that the fastest runner could not keep pace with her; and when at the distance, of about two hundred yards, she fell to the ground on a sudden as if she had been shot. Soon afterwards a young man fired a matchlock over her body, struck her on the backa penny. da me

THIS city presents the most extraordinary contrast of poverty and magnificence to be met with in Europe. As you approach it you find the suburbs composed of hovels, the sides of which are partly stone and partly earth, the roofs of turf, the entrances about four feet and a half high, and the whole dimensions of each not exceeding twelve or fourteen feet square. These miserable caves may or may not have a hole for a window, and an aperture on the top to let out the smoke, if the luxury of fire can be afforded. Around the door the dirty children are huddled-not one-half are decently clad; some of them still evince notions of civiliz-, ation by slinking into the house, or turning their bare parts against the wall. I see hundreds whose whole dress consisting of a mass of rags, of all colours and all sorts of fabrics, will not furnish one piece of cloth eight inches square; and these tatters seem to be sewed together only to prevent them deserting each other. Having passed the suburbs, the dwellings improve; and, on reaching Sackville Street, you imagine yourself in one of the finest cities in Europe. In walking over the city, the late Parliament House, (now the Bank,) the Exchange, the quay along the Liffey, and several of the public squares, excites the stranger's admiration. There is no part of London which can compare with the centre of Dublin in beauty or magnifi. cence. But in turning the eye from the architectural splendour which surrounds him, upon the crowds which flow along the streets, the stranger will be struck with the mot ley nature of the throng. Here is a lass almost buoyant with satin and feathers; there is a trembling girl of eighteen, purple from cold, shrinking from shame, and drawing around her the poor rags, which with all her care, scarce cover her body; here is an Exquisite, perfuming the air as he passes, with rings on his fingers, diamonds on his brooch, and a gemmed quizzing-glass at his side; there is an honest fellow who cannot afford a hat, whose feet, summer or winter, know not the luxury of shoe or stocking, and whose whole wardrobe, consisting of but two articles, viz. a taltered jacket, and about half a pair of small clothes; and, not to multiply pictures, while the Lieutenant dashes by in a coach and four, the stranger gazes at the gallant and costly pageant, while he empties his pockets to satisfy the throng of beggars who pray him, in the name of God, to give them

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made to run near him, he jammed himself into a corner, and stood trembling and roaring in such an ecstacy of fear,! that we were always obliged to desist from sheer pity to the spot where the unconscious little mouse ran backwards and forwards. For a long time, however, we could not get h to move, till at length, I believe, by the help of a squih, v obliged him to start; but instead of pacing leisurely acros his den, or making a detour to avoid the object of his alarm he generally took a kind of flying leap, so high as nearly bring his back in contact with the roof of his cage."

ANECDOTE OF SIR WALTER SCOTT.-In the fervour a his manly anxiety to fulfil his pecuniary engagements, considered each hour mispent which did not directly cont bute to the accomplishment of that noble end. At last, t eager desire to work himself out of debt seemed to ho become a sort of fascination which he could not rees One day, Dr. Abercrombie, of Edinburgh, (than whom w more ably "minister to the mind diseased") urged up him the necessity of greater moderation in his mental la bours: "Sir Walter," said the kind physician, “ you m not write so constantly; really, Sir, you must not work. "I tell you what it is, doctor," said the Author of Waverle "Molly, when she puts the kettle on, might just as we say, Kettle-kettle, don't boil.'

DUELLING. Every petty quarrel must nowadays be decided in the field. All ranks fight. It seems as if a mili-poor brute. Sometimes we insisted on his passing over the tary mania pervaded every class of men. The hero of Waterloo fought, and many dared to infringe the laws. Two writers' clerks lately exchanged a challenge and acceptance. A country distiller and grocer, not above thirty miles from the metropolis, did the same;-one only, however, went to the field; and not finding his antagonist there, fired off his pistol at a passing wood-pigeon, and returned in triumph. Two poulterers exchanged shots last week,—quarriers have been heard talking of throwing squibs at one another out of their match-powder; nay, the very coalheavers, over their cups, have been heard to boast that they can defy the police, by measuring off in their subterranean dens. In short, the word DUEL is now perfectly understood by every urchin at school; and is as often in their mouths as "household words." And how can it be otherwise, since not a week passes but the columns of the public papers are bloated with the foul stain of honourable murder. The ancient Greeks and Romans never fought duels-among them, single combat was never practised, except between rival princes, with a view to prevent a greater effusion of blood; and this only against the enemies of their country. The story of T. Pulfio and L. Varenus, in Cæsar's Com- HALF-AND-HAL.F.-A wag, on being told that the Chan mentaries, is familiar to every scholar. But the following cellor of the Exchequer had taken off half of the duty anecdote will do more than a thousand sage advices to show soap, observed, that one step had been taken toward an the light in which one of the bravest men that ever lived proving the people; and we should no longer hear the viewed this fashionable, gentleman-like, honourable mode of phrase" unwashed artificers" applied to the "lower deciding quarrels, and acquiring the reputation of brave.ders," who would, in future, be termed "half-washed art› A young booby of an officer, having just joined at headquarters, was informed by some of his messmates, that if he did not signalize himself, by fighting some man of known courage, he would soon be despised in the regiment. On his way to Antwerp, where the corps was lying, he had the good fortune to travel in company with the celebrated Duke of Guise, who, with his usual benevolence, offered to take care of him whither they were going, which he accordingly did, and then took leave of him. The raw soldier told his gasconading brethren, that he knew no one but Colonel Guise; and to him he was indebted for many personal civili-over-peopled country, have wisely determined to exper ties. That made no difference, they said, in these cases; the colonel was the fittest man in the world, as every body knew his bravery. The young officer soon afterwards met the colonel, walking up and down in the coffee-house, and in a half-hesitating manner began to tell him how much he had been obliged to him, and how sensible he was of his kindness. "Sir," replied Guise," I have done my duty by you, and no more." "But, colonel," added the other, faultering, "I am told that I must fight some gentleman of known courage, and who has killed several persons; and that nobody" "Oh, Sir," replied the colonel, "your friends do me too much honour; but there is a gentleman,'

showing him a fierce-looking, black fellow, who was sitting at one of the tables, "who has killed half the regiment." Upon this, the tyro approached the man of death, and proceeded to tell him that he was well informed of his bravery, and for that reason he must fight him. "Who, me, Sir?" replied the gentleman; "why, I am an apothecary." The sum of the whole, then, is, that every man will find, if he takes pains to examine into the grounds of dispute, that he might have avoided them without the smallest injury to his reputation; for it is always some silly display, either of anity or pride, that gives occasion to duels.

MANLY AMUSEMENTS. THE MOUSE AND TIGER.— Captain Hall, in his "Fragments of Voyages and Travels," relates, with proper glee, the following anecdote of a tiger kept at the British residency in India, and whose dinner was a sheep every day :-" But what annoyed him far more than our poking him up with a stick, or tantalizing him with shins of beef or legs of mutton, was introducing a mouse into his cage. No fine lady ever exhibited more terror at the sight of a spider than this magnificent royal tiger betrayed on seeing a mouse. Our mischievous plan was to tie the little animal by a string to the end of a long pole, and thrust it close to the tiger's nose. The moment he saw it he leaped to the opposite side, and when the mouse was'

ficers." This is not so good as the chimney-sweep an northern town, who shewed one half of his sooty face cl and pleaded for the other that the duty was but half tak off.

DEPARTURE OF A STEAM-BOAT FOR BOMBAY our readers fancy (which they easily will do, if they hav any imagination) that they see the steam-boat making way out of the harbour of Falmouth, with a crowd of pas sengers on deck. In the front stand a bevy of pretty giris who have failed in their matrimonial speculations in the

themselves, while they are still marriageable, to regi where Parson Malthus was never heard of; close to them. and acting as their comforters, are grouped a dozen you fellows, half school-boys and half men, in the regiments of the Hon. Company's army, going to seek their fortunes in the field of battle, and probably to perish in the swams of Ava, the jungles of Bengal, or on the burning plains of Delhi; a little in the rear stand a group of more predest followers of fortune, who, preferring solid pay to emper praise, are proceeding to India as civil servants of the con pany; scattered about on the deck stand merchants, agents and clerks, drawn to the East, by the hope of gain; twor three ramblers by profession, made up the complement of passengers; whilst in the midst of the parting scene the ex tain gives his orders, which are shouted from mouth mouth-the paddles revolve rapidly the vessel gains the channel and in a few hours the white cliffs of Old Eng land vanish, it may be, for ever, from the view.-Liverpai

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HOLIDAY RAMBLES, No. V.

INCHKEITH.

WERE you ever on the Island of Inchkeith? If not, avail yourself of the very first opportunity that offers for such an excursion, and be assured that you will be gratified with as fine a panoramic view as can possibly be seen in any part of the world, and that both in reference to the internal and external scenery.

Set off to Newhaven, then, on the first fine calm day, (the latter quality not the least important, as you will afterwards learn ;) engage a boat, and if a steam boat can be got, so much the better, and sail away to the pleasant isle. You may land either on the south or north side, as may suit your convenience, or according to the direction of the wind, there being eligible landing places on both sides; but the boatmen sway you to bear for the nearest, and they are in general to be depended on. You glide smoothly along, admiring the delightful picture spread out in every direction, so that, turn your eyes to whichever quarter you may, all is charming, varied, beautiful.

Now we shall suppose you have reached the island, and have entered a fine creek at the southwest corner, and almost immediately under the highest part of it, on which the lighthouse is erected. "But what, in the name of all that is marvellous, are we to be about here?" you will exclaim; "the rocks all around are apparently perpendicular precipices, sixty feet in height; are we to be drawn up by block and tackle to yon dizzy altitude? Stop, boatmen, we are far enough into this iron-bound inlet-put the boat back immediately.” “Bide awee, Sir, if you please," quoth the boatmen ; 66 we didna come a' this way to put back so soon, you will get ashore directly." "And where are we to go after? Is our excursion to be round the base of the precipitous basaltic walls?" *** I never heard the Climpers get that name afore," says the Newhaven man with a grin ;

a beautiful verdant valley. Along the bottom of this valley you proceed, till about the middle of it, where you observe another cleft in the rocks, up which your road continues in a direction at right angles with that of the former. You continue to ascend till you get to the top of those very precipices, which, a little before, you imagined to be inaccessible from this side of the island.

It is now that the external view gradually opens on you. There lie the shores of the three Lothians, stretched at your feet like a beautiful carpet, richly embellished with all the radiant hues of summer, and far surpassing anything that has ever come from the pencil of the artist. In the eastern horizon you have the ever-pleasing, never tiring sea, sprinkled with sails of all shapes and sizes, with the island of May on the one side, and the Bass Rock on the other, both pleasing objects

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yet how different in their appearance! There, too, stands North-Berwick Law, and, farther on, the Soutra and Lammermuir range of hills, which you had a nearer view of last year during your railway jaunt; yet from this point they look even loftier than they did then. There is our own romantic town," which is easily distinguished by its classic hills and eminences, and see how proudly Arthur's Seat rears his head. Did you ever admire his fine form half so much while strolling at his foot, or climbing his sides? We are sure you never did. Why, even the Calton Hill, "the modern Acropolis," looks infinitely more interesting than when viewed from Prince's Street; and you may discern there the twelve pillars raised as a Monument of our National Pride and Poverty. The Pentland Hills, rising in their grandeur behind the town, throw the Castle Hill, Corstorphine, and other eminences into the shade. But to the west the scene is beautiful in the extreme. There, at your feet, is the Roadstead of the aristocratic port of Leith, in which are about a score of the wooden palaces of Britain, preparing to set but, how-off to every quarter of the habitable globe; farther away, the clear mirror-like water is dotted with numerous sweet little islands, among which are Inchmickery, Inchgarvie, Cramond,―we cannot recollect the half of their names,-while the southern shore is studded with gentlemen's houses, some of them stretching, you would think, into the very sea; and over the high land at Queensferry.

somdever, I'll pilot you up to the lighthouse." The boat now touches the rocks, and you reluctantly step upon a ledge of them; but still you cannot discover how you are to scale the height. On you walk in the wake of the boatman, however, and anon you perceive a ravine, up which is a zigzag beaten path, which you ascend, till you emerge into

the Castle of Stirling may be observed merging | a busy, stirring population; while the same may into the clouds. But we cannot stop at this point be said of Burntisland, Aberdour, and Inverkeithany longer, or we will not have seen all the beau-ing, to the west. In short, the whole coast of ties in and around Inchkeith, in a fortnight; so come along:-see here is the south entrance to the lighthouse enclosed grounds; and as we are sure of a cordial welcome from Mr. B., who superintends the light, do not let us linger here any longer.

You must make a considerable detour after entering the enclosure, before you come to the main building or tower, where the light is exhibited, but then your every step affords additional pleasure from the scenery around you. And now you are at the door of the lighthouse, you receive a kind invitation to enter, while you almost believe that there is to be to-day an inspection by the Commissioners for the Northern Lights,-every thing around appears so clean and neat. You immediately ascend to the upper part of the towerand then what a strange room you enter into, the top and walls of which form one complete window. | In the centre stands what at first sight may be taken for a table clock, which is enclosed in a glass case, so as to afford a view of the whole interior machinery, now in motion, as it indeed must be day and night; the only difference being that you are lighted by the rays of the glorious sun, whereas at night these argaud lamps, and beautifully burnished reflectors, are made to revolve, so as to cast ever and anon their light afar over the deep, to guide the way-worn mariner in his obscure tract, and direct his course on entering the Firth. From the side of this room a door opens to a balcony on the outside, and you may walk round the building, and enjoy such a view as can nowhere be surpassed for loveliness; the place, too, is so safe that ladies may walk round it without fear or trembling. This is a spot from which Mr. Marshall, or some other of our panoramie painters, should take one of their pictures; and a very splendid one it would be, if executed with any spirit, and one that would no doubt very soon repay the artist for his labour.

Fife is instinct with life; the background af. fording a delightful diversity of hill and dale, the hills not too numerous; and, in the extreme distance, the Grampians may be discerned, towering aloft in their misty grandeur. On this spot the topographer might enjoy a bird's-eye view of one of the finest portions of Scotland, a living map vi the country being, as it were, laid down before him, and it is such a one as all must admire, and which an enthusiastic artist would luxuriate on fer months together.

But we have spent so much time looking at dis tant objects, that we must descend and take a hurried ramble through the island, or it will be late ere we reach Auld Reekie again. The kee sea breeze, and the unwonted exercise, however, have sharpened the appetite; and, as our host has invited us to rest ourselves in the room under that in which we have enjoyed so much pleasure duri the last two hours, we may as well try to allay the unpleasant sensation about the region of the stomach with what we have brought with us. W: shall suppose all the replenishing of the inner ma over, including a glass or two to qualify the sub stantial meal we have made; and out we sally to roam over the island, on the highest part of which as formerly mentioned, the lighthouse stands. Ai we descend the path on the north side, cast your eyes to the west: down in the valley bounded by that bluff, you see the keeper has a spot of promising vegetables that will supply the pot during the year; and there is an enclosed park that would af ford a good bite to a cow and a few sheep during the summer at least, though in the winter they could only "chew the end of sweet and bitter reflection" in this place. After descending for a short space, you get to a level the greatest in extent in the island, where, we believe, the sports of the Celtic Society are held, when they take their summer jaunt to Inchkeith; and below this, just at the foot of this perpendicular precipice, is the north landing place, which you may reach by wind. ing your way a little to the east. The whole coast of this side of the island is strewn with rocks, some only covered, and others showing their

The spectator, on the outside of the light-room, has, in looking down the Firth, a first-rate sea view. There, in the distance, to your left, is the isle of May, the reflection of the sun on the glass of the lighthouse of which dazzles your eyes, even at this distance, and you can see the sheep brows-heads above the water, while the tide is foaming ing close by the lighthouse. On the right stands out the Bass Rock, frowning defiance on every ship that passes, while the vessels move on like living creatures, proud in their strength. There you have the land on the north side from the East Neuk to the western part of Fife, the Ochil Hills bounding the view in that direction, though there appear more distant hills overtopping these, until they are lost in the clouds, from which, indeed, they are not easily distinguishable. Immediately opposite to you, in the fine sandy bay, stands the thriving town of Kirkaldy, which, from your present situation, appears to merit the epithet lang, as with it the Wemyss, Dysart, and King. horn, blend finely into one continuous range of

and boiling among them with great noise, Farther east you see a deep ravine with precipitous banks on both sides, where, although at present dry s bottom, you can easily perceive traces of the ra vages made by the sea during some tremendous storm, which occurred at no very distant date, the sides of the ravine are here and there torn, and large openings formed, which, if there is a spice of romance in your composition, you will, of course, call "caverns vast." As we are neither mineralogists nor geologists we will not descend, but hurry on to the eastern extremity of the island, which is the narrowest part; and, as you eave fully a mile to walk from this spot ere you reach the extreme east, you had better mové où,

for you will find it attended with more labour and again, repeat their repast of rabbits' flesh, ardently time than walking the same distance over a Mac-wishing for the accompanying luxury of a stale adamized road in the neighbourhood of a town. biscuit, or a crust of bread, and in the evening While you are travelling along, however, you may were compelled again to betake themselves to the as well east your eyes about you, for though you cave for their repose. In this manner they passed thought you saw everything worth seeing from the second day and night; and it was late in the the dizzy height of the balcony around the light- afternoon of the third day ere the wind abated, room, yet you will find yourself mistaken; besides, when they were picked up by a man-of-war's boat, the greater distance, or some other cause, makes the crew of which observed them in passing, and even the objects you formerly saw wear a different were landed in Leith in a very exhausted state. aspect, now you are on terra firma. Every step Their friends and acquaintances having given you take the scene changes, and every change is, them up as lost, the boat in which they left the like the figures of the kaleidoscope, if possible harbour having been cast ashore at Fisherrow, more beautiful than the one preceding. their joy at their return may be easily imagined.

We have been viewing the north, or Fife coast, in going east, so you may as well keep up to the rising ground in returning, and then we have the south coast in view all the way. The reader may now be as tired as the travellers, and will, no doubt, hail with pleasure the south entrance to the lighthouse grounds, the spot we formerly set out from. We now hid adieu to the pleasant isle, embark again in the boat, reach Newhaven, and get home delighted and fatigued with the day's excursion,

There are, however, no dangers of this description to be encountered nowadays-no hairbreadth escapes to be feared in an excursion to Inchkeith; with the exception of the remote chance of a short detention in comfortable quarters, all is as safe as a journey by the railway or any other land conveyance.

COMMERCIAL THIEVES.

IN a book, entitled, "A Caution to Merchants, Traders, &c., &c., against Impositions of different kinds," we have the following singular scenes unfolded. Who could imagine so much roguery possible in the cautious and well-governed

city of Edinburgh. The work is said to be intended for private circulation only, though we believe our readers will agree with us in thinking this portion of it deserves all manner of publicity. But where is the use of concealing the names of the parties? The very least punishment a fraudulent trader or undoubted swindler deserves is exposure.

a London Distiller and Recti An account of Mr. fier, well known in Scotland by the name "Mr. Palent Schiedam."

A few years ago there appeared in Scotland a person from London, who represented himself to be a scientific rectifier and one who had learned the distiller's art in Holland. This said personage having visited Scotland for the express purpose of becoming acquainted with our distillers and rectifiers, was at no loss for want of an introduction, he being in possession of a secret which served as his passport. In the course of his Scottish journey, of distilled rectified calling, he waited upon a rectifier, a friend of mine, stated that the purport of his visit was to teach Scotch rectifiers the art of making Hollands upon the principle practised in the celebrated distillery of Schiedam.

If it should come to blow a gale while you are on the island, you need not be surprised if you have to take up your quarters in the lighthouse for a night, as such has happened before to parties of pleasure visiting the island. About eight years ago a party were detained in the hospitable little mansion of the lightkeeper from Friday till the Monday following, ere they got back to their friends. However, this is but a trifling inconvenience, in comparison to the unpleasant predicament in which a friend and a companion found themselves placed some thirty years ago. The two youths, who were both very ardent sportsmen, and considered good shots, got a boat from Leith harbour, and set off early in the morning for the purpose of shooting rabbits, at that time in great abundance on the island of Inchkeith. They had scarcely reached the island when it came on a strong gale, which shortly afterwards increased to a hurricane. They proceeded with their sport, notwithstanding, and soon killed a number of rabbits; but the boat, during the time, having broken from her moorings, and drifted to sea, their anxiety for game quickly changed to anxiety for their personal safety. There was at that time no lighthouse or building of any description on the island, and never having anti-stated, that if an article, upon experiment, was made to rival cipated detention there, they had taken no provisions with them; but necessity and a keen appetite sharpened their wits, and they collected some drift wood on the shore, with which, aided by their gun and powder, they made a fire, roasted some of the rabbits, and made a hearty meal. At sunset they took shelter in one of the caves in the island, where they slept soundly, expecting to be picked up by some vessel next day, and by that means get home. The next day, however, brought them no relief, the wind continuing as violent as ever; they had therefore to kindle their fire

The Scotch rectifier on this occasion, although, no doubt, anxious to possess a secret which might be the means of securing to him a fortune, had no notion of paying away his cash for fair promises. He, however, having ascertained Patent Schiedam's terms,

the famous Schiedam, the premium asked would then be taken into consideration. To this proposal Mr. Patent Schiedam agreed, and being allowed to use the still-house of the Scotch rectifier, in due time made the gin-experimental. My friend, the rectifier, invited a few of his intimate acquaintances to dine at his house, along with Mr. Patent Schiedam. After dinner the gin-experimental was produced, and the company were requested to pass judgment on the super-excellent new distilled Schiedam. The verdict returned was guilty, and the gin-experimental being thus condemned, because of its infra excellence, accounts for my friend, the Scotch rectifier, declining to avail himself of the instructions offered to him by Mr. Patent Schiedam,

Shortly after this experimental failure, Mr. Patent Schiedam returned to London, and, as fate would have it, one of