and the incompetency of the
Chevalier St. George as a leader, had begun to fix their hopes on the
Chevalier's son, Charles Edward, at that time a young but promising lad;
and, with the tragedy of Brook before them, neither they, nor the
English Government of the day could have failed to see the foreigner
George the Second typified--unintentionally, surely, on the part of
Brook, who was a "Prince of Wales" Whig--in the foreigner Christiern
the Second, the Scotch Highlanders in the Mountaineers of Dalecarlia,
and the young Prince in Gustavus. In the Jacobite manuscript of Mr.
Petrie's collection, the parallelism is broadly traced; nor is it in the
least probable, as the poem is a piece of sad mediocrity throughout,
that it is a parallelism which was originated by its writer. It must
have been that of his party; and led, I doubt not, five years before, to
the prohibition of Brook's tragedy, and to the singular success which
attended its publication. The passage in the manuscript suggestive of
this view takes the form of an address to the victorious prince, and
runs as follows:--

"Meanwhile, unguarded youth, thou stoodst alone;
The cruel Tyrant urged his Armie on;
But Truth and Goodness were the Best of Arms;
And, fearless Prince, Thou smil'd at Threatened harms.
Thus, Glorious Vasa worked in Swedish mines,--
Thus, Helpless, Saw his Enemy's Designs,--
Till, roused, his Hardy Highlanders arose,
And poured Destruction on their foreign foes."

I rose betimes next morning, and crossed the Peerie [little] Sea, a
shallow prolongation of the Bay of Kirkwall, cut off from the main sea
by an artificial mound, to the quarry of Pickoquoy, somewhat notable,
only a few years ago, as the sole locality in which shells had been
detected in the Old Red Sandstone of Scotland. But these have since been
found in the neighborhood of Thurso, by Mr. Robert Dick, associated
with bones and plates of the Asterolepis, and by Mr. William Watt on the
opposite side of the Mainland of Orkney, at Marwick Head. So far as has
yet been ascertained, they are all of one species, and more nearly
resemble a small Cyclas than any other shell. They are, however, more
deeply sulcated in concentric lines, drawn, as if by a pair of
compasses, from the umbone, and somewhat resembling those of the genus
Astarte, than any species of Cyclas with which I am acquainted. In all
the specimens I have yet seen, it appears to be rather a thick dark
epidermis that s