ine.

{p.187} "I took occasion to plead, in like manner, the
associations of early life for my disappointment in respect
to the surrounding scenery. I had been so accustomed to see
hills crowned with forests, and streams breaking their way
through a wilderness of trees, that all my ideas of romantic
landscape were apt to be well wooded. 'Ay, and that's the
great charm of your country,' cried Scott. 'You love the
forest as I do the heather; but I would not have you think I
do not feel the glory of a great woodland prospect. There is
nothing I should like more than to be in the midst of one of
your grand wild original forests, with the idea of hundreds
of miles of untrodden forest around me. I once saw at Leith
an immense stick of timber, just landed from America. It
must have been an enormous tree when it stood in its native
soil, at its full height, and with all its branches. I gazed
at it with admiration; it seemed like one of the gigantic
obelisks which are now and then brought from Egypt to shame
the pigmy monuments of Europe; and, in fact, these vast
aboriginal trees, that have sheltered the Indians before the
intrusion of the white men, are the monuments and
antiquities of your country.'

"The conversation here turned upon Campbell's poem of
Gertrude of Wyoming, as illustrative of the poetic materials
furnished by American scenery. Scott cited several passages
of it with great delight. 'What a pity it is,' said he,
'that Campbell does not write more, and oftener, and give
full sweep to his genius! He has wings that would bear him
to the skies; and he does, now and then, spread them
grandly, but folds them up again, and resumes his perch, as
if he was afraid to launch away. What a grand idea is that,'
said he, 'about prophetic boding, or, in common parlance,
second sight--

"Coming events cast their shadows before!"--

The fact is,' added he, 'Campbell is, in a manner, a bugbear
to himself. The brightness of his early success is a
detriment to all his further efforts. _He is afraid of the
shadow that his own fame casts before him._'

"We had not walked much farther, before we saw the two Miss
Scotts advancing along the hillside to meet us. The
morning's studies being over, they had set off to take a
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