"حياة ومراسلات اللواء السير جون مالكوم، قائد فرسان وسام الطُهر، المبعوث السابق إلى بلاد فارس وحاكم بومباي؛ من رسائل ومذكرات غير منشورة. في مجلّدين. المجلد II." [‎٤‎٣‎٣] (٦٥٤/٤٥٠)

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it's no a crook in the road, but a crook in the river, which ye must
gang by! Then, when ye're doun on a wee east (about a mile),
haud west for twa miles, and when ye come to a road between twa
dykes, which gangs north, just go down it and you'll see the
Toun!' I reported the directions, at which Johnstone laughed.
The Toun,* he informed me, meant the old solitary house of Tuli-
boli, at which we at length arrived. Lady Moncreiff was not well,
but I passed a most delightful day and evening with the old gen
tleman. Sir Harry Moncreiff, though seventy-eight, retains all
his faculties perfect. He is a man who mixes sound piety with
great energy, judgment, and decision. He leads, and has long
led, what are mockingly called the Highflyers of the Scottish
Kirk. But to this evangelical party Scotland owes the steady
resistance to those daily attacks made upon her excellent and
moderate establishments. An attempt is now in progress to give
favorites and Government parsons two offices, such as that of
principalf of a college and minister of a large parish. It has suc
ceeded; but so much has been done by Sir Harry, Professor Mac-
gill, of Glasgow, and others, to expose the evil tendency of acts
that, by giving men more duties than they can perform, must
either render them negligent heads or professors in a college, or
unfaithful ministers of religion, as also the danger of making
pluralists in the Scotch Establishment, that the experiment will
probably not be repeated. I shall buy you Sir Harry's Sermons
and works on the Evidences for Christianity, by which you will
judge of the piety and strength of his mind. He has other
qualities you would like. He is the most cheerful of men, and
is full of entertaining anecdote, with a warm heart to his friends,
and amongst the dearest of those the Burnfoot family have ranked
for forty years.
" From Tuliboli I made an excursion of thirty-five miles to see
old Mr. Low, of Clatto, the father of John Low, who was so long
with me in India, and ranks at the head of my list of soldier
favorites. I had given no warning, for I was uncertain to the
last whether I should be able to visit them. When I entered the
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* The word is Saxon for a house, ment at Glasgow, and carried by the
and the country people still use it in its influence of Government to please the
ftrionnol T TVT "P\1 T Tl/T
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original signification.-
f This was done in a late appoint-
Duke of Montrose.—J. M.
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