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BLACKWOOD'S
Edinburgh
MAGAZINE.
VOL. LXVI.
JULY—DECEMBER, 1849.
WILLIAM BLACKWOOD & SONS, EDINBURGH;
AND
37, PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON.
1849.
BLACKWOOD'S
EDINBURGH MAGAZINE.
No. CCCCV. JULY, 1849. Vol. LXVI.
CONTENTS.
| Dies Boreales. No. II. Christopher under Canvass, | 1 |
| The Island of Sardinia, | 33 |
| The Caxtons.—Part XIV. | 48 |
| The Game Laws in Scotland, | 63 |
| Dominique, | 77 |
| Pestalozziana, | 93 |
| The Crowning of the Column, and Crushing of the Pedestal, | 108 |
| Postscript, | 131 |
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No. CCCCV. JULY, 1849. Vol. LXVI.
Dies Boreales.
No. II.
CHRISTOPHER UNDER CANVASS.
Encampment at Cladich. Time—Eleven, A.M.
SCENE—The Portal of the Pavilion.
North—Buller—Seward.
BULLER.
I know there is nothing you dislike so much as personal observations——
NORTH.
On myself to myself—not at all on others.
BULLER.
Yet I cannot help telling you to your face, sir, that you are one of thefinest-looking old men——
NORTH.
Elderly gentlemen, if you please, sir.
BULLER.
In Britain, in Europe, in the World. I am perfectly serious, sir. You are.
NORTH.
You needed not to say you were perfectly serious: for I suffer no man tobe ironical on Me, Mr Buller. I am.
BULLER.
Such a change since we came to Cladich! Seward was equally shocked,with myself, at your looks on board the Steamer. So lean—so bent—so