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SMITH, ELDER AND CO., 65, CORNH

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THE ROUA PASS.

CHAPTER I.

ENGLISH SPORTSMEN.

It's no in titles nor in rank,

It's no in wealth like Lon'on Bank,

To purchase peace and rest.

Nae treasu

treasures nor pleasures

Could make us happy lang;

The heart ay's the part ay

That makes us right or wrang.-BURNS.

THE English lessee of the shooting of Dreumah had the Highlands three days ere the 12th of August, ac by two friends. It was a shooting which in extent ness ranked as one of the best in the Highla inhabited by every prized species, from the hig Ptarmigan to the far-ranging Red Deer, and brou commensurate with the sport it afforded, and with t which only epicurean Englishmen are willing to lavi exciting enjoyment.

The wild country around was unmarked by th human foot; the sportsmen and the shepherds tra way by nobler signs. There, on the blue horizon, blasted trunks of a pine forest, looking on moonli like a battle-field of gigantic skeletons, or a fearfu clans,—Ossian's mighty men-arrested by one deat their attitudes of strife. The father mountain of I

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