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Rannach, which runs through quondam Struan Robertson's estate from Loch Rannach to Loch Tummel-Dine at Blair-Company-General Murray - Captain Murray, an honest tar Sir William Murray, an honest, worthy man, but tormented with the hypochondria-Mrs. Graham, belle et aimable-Miss Catchcart— Mrs. Murray, a painter-Mrs. King-Duchess and fine family, the Marquis, Lords James, Edward, and Robert-Ladies Charlotte, Emilia, and children dance-Sup-Mr. Graham of Fintray. Come up the Garrie-Falls of Bruar-Daldecairoch-Dalwhinnie-Dine-Snow on the hills 17 feet deep-No corn from Loch-Gairie to Dalwhinnie-Cross the Spey, and come down the stream to Pitnin—Straths rich—les environs picturesque-Craigow hill-Ruthven of Badenoch

- Barracks-wild and magnificent - Rothemurche on the other side, and Glenmore— Grant of Rothemurche's poetry-told me by the Duke of Gordon-Strathspey, rich and romantic—Breakfast at Aviemore, a wild spotdine at Sir James Grant's-Lady Grant, a sweet, pleasant body-come through mist and darkness to Dulsie, to lie.

Tuesday.-Findhorn river-rocky bankscome on to Castle Cawdor, where Macbeth murdered King Duncan-saw the bed in which King Duncan was stabbed-dine at Kilravock

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Venerable ruins of Elgin Abbey-A grander effect at first glance than Melrose, but not near so beautiful-Cross Spey to Fochabers-fine palace, worthy of the generous proprietor-Dine -company, Duke and Duchess, Ladies Charlotte and Magdeline, Col. Abercrombie, and a clergyman, Lady, Mr. Gordon and Mr.

a venerable, aged figure-the Duke makes me happier than ever great man did—noble, princely; yet mild, condescending, and affable ; gay and kind-the Duchess witty and sensible -God bless them!

Come to Cullen to lie-hitherto the country is sadly poor and unimproven.

Come to Aberdeen-meet with Mr. Chalmers, printer, a facetious fellow-Mr. Ross a fine fellow, like Professor Tytler,-Mr. Marshal one of the poetæ minores-Mr. Sheriffs, author of "Jamie and Bess," a little decrepid body with some abilities-Bishop Skinner, a nonjuror, son of the author of "Tullochgorum," a man whose mild, venerable manner is the most marked of any in so young a man-Professor Gordon, a good-natured, jolly-looking professor

—Mrs. Rose, sen., a true chieftain's wife—Fort-Aberdeen, a lazy town-near Stonhive, the George-Inverness.

Wednesday.—Loch Ness-Braes of Ness-General's hut-Falls of Fyers-Urquhart Castle and Strath.

Thursday.-Come over Culloden Muir-reflections on the field of battle-breakfast at Kilravock-old Mrs. Rose, sterling sense, warm heart, strong passions, and honest pride, all in an uncommon degree-Mrs. Rose, jun., a little milder than the mother-this perhaps owing to her being younger-Mr. Grant, minister at Grant, minister at Calder, resembles Mr. Scott at InverleithingMrs. Rose and Mrs. Grant accompany us to Kildrummie-two young ladies-Miss Rose, who sung two Gaelic songs, beautiful and lovely -Miss Sophia Brodie, most agreeable and amiable-both of them gentle, mild; the sweetest creatures on earth, and happiness be with them! -Dine at Nairn-fall in with a pleasant enough gentleman, Dr. Stewart, who had been long abroad with his father in the forty-five; and Mr. Falconer, a spare, irascible, warm-hearted Norland, and a nonjuror-Brodie-house to lie.

coast a good deal romantic-meet my relations Robert Burns, writer, in Stonhive, one of those who love fun, a gill, and a punning joke, and have not a bad heart-his wife a sweet hospitable body, without any affectation of what is called town-breeding.

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Friday.--Breakfast with the Miss Scotts-Miss Bess Scott like Mrs. Greenfield-my bardship almost in love with her-come through the rich harvests and fine hedge-rows of the Carse of Gowrie, along the romantic margin of the Grampian hills, to Perth-fine, fruitful, hilly, woody country round Perth.

Saturday Morning.-Leave Perth-come up Strathearn to Endermay-fine, fruitful, culti

vated Strath-the scene of "Bessy Bell, and Mary Gray," near Perth-fine scenery on the banks of the May-Mrs. Belcher, gawcie, frank, affable, fond of rural sports, hunting, &c.-Lie at Kinross-reflections in a fit of the colic.

Sunday.-Pass through a cold, barren country to Queensferry-dine-cross the ferry and on to Edinburgh.

THE POET'S ASSIGNMENT OF HIS WORKS.

KNOW all men by these presents that I Robert Burns of Mossgiel whereas I intend to leave : Scotland and go abroad, and having acknowledged myself the father of a child named Elizabeth, begot upon Elizabeth Paton in Largieside: and whereas Gilbert Burns in Mossgiel, my brother, has become bound, and hereby binds and obliges himself to aliment, clothe, and educate my said natural child in a suitable manner as if she was his own, in case her mother chuse to part with her, and that until she arrive at the age of fifteen years. Therefore, and to enable the said Gilbert Burns to make good his said engagement, wit ye me to have assigned, disponed, conveyed and made over to, and in favours of, the said Gilbert Burns, his heirs, executors, and assignees, who are always to be bound in like manner, with himself, all and sundry goods, gear, corns, cattle, horses, nolt, sheep, household furniture, and all other moveable effects of whatever kind that I shall leave behind me on my departure from this Kingdom, after allowing for my part of the conjunct debts due by the said Gilbert Burns and me as joint tacksmen of the farm of Mossgiel. And particularly without prejudice of the foresaid generality, the profits that may arise from the publication of my poems presently in the press. And also, I hereby dispone and convey to him in trust for behoof of my said natural daughter, the copyright of said poems in so far as I can dispose of the same by law, after she arrives at the above age of fifteen years complete. Surrogating and substituting the said Gilbert Burns my brother and his foresaids in my full right, title, room and place of the whole premises, with power to him to intromit with, and dispose upon the same at pleasure, and in general to do every other thing

in the premises that I could have done myself before granting hereof, but always with and under the conditions before expressed. And I oblige myself to warrant this disposition and assignation from my own proper fact and deed allenarly. Consenting to the registration hereof in the books of Council and Session, or any other Judges books competent, therein to remain for preservation and constitute.

Proculars, &c. In witness whereof I have wrote and signed these presents, consisting of this and the preceding page, on stamped paper, with my own hand, at the Mossgiel, the twentysecond day of July, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-six years. (Signed)

ROBERT BURNS.

Upon the twenty-fourth day of July, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-six years, I, William Chalmer, Notary Publick, past to the Mercat Cross of Ayr head Burgh of the Sheriffdome thereof, and thereat I made due and lawful intimation of the foregoing disposition and assignation to his Majesties lieges, that they might not pretend ignorance thereof by reading the same over in presence of a number of people assembled. Whereupon William Crooks, writer, in Ayr, as attorney for the before designed Gilbert Burns, protested that the same was lawfully intimated, and asked and took instruments in my hands. These things were done betwixt the hours of ten and eleven forenoon, before and in presence of William M'Cubbin, and William Eaton, apprentices to the Sheriff Clerk of Ayr, witnesses to the premises. (Signed)

WILLIAM CHALMER, N. P.
WILLIAM M'CUBBIN, Witness.
WILLIAM EATON, Witness.

GLOSSARY.

"THE ch and gh have always the guttural sound. The sound of the English diphthong oo is commonly spelled ou. The French u, a sound which often occurs in the Scottish language, is marked oo or ui. The a, in genuine Scottish words, except when forming a diphthong, or followed by an e mute after a single consonant, sounds generally like the broad English a in wall. The Scottish diphthong ae always, and ea very often, sound like the French e masculine. The Scottish diphthong ey sounds like the Latin ei.”

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Bear, barley.

Bearded-bear, barley with its
bristly head.

Beastie, diminutive of beast.
Beet, beek, to add fuel to a fire, to
bask.
Beld, bald.

Belyve, by and by, presently,
quickly.

Ben, into the spence or parlour.
Benmost-bore, the remotest hole,
the innermost recess.
Bethankit, grace after meat.
Beuk, a book.

Bicker, a kind of wooden dish, a
short rapid race.
Bickering, careering, hurrying
with quarrelsome intent.
Birnie, birnie ground is where
thick heath has been burnt,
leaving the birns, or uncon-
sumed stalks, standing up
sharp and stubley.

Bie, or bield, shelter, a sheltered
place, the sunny nook of a
wood.

Bien, wealthy, plentiful.
Big, to build.

Biggin, building, a house.
Biggit, built.

Bill, a bull.

Billie, a brother, a young fellow,

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Birses, bristles.

Bit, crisis, nick of time, place.
Bizz, a bustle, to buzz.

Black's the grun', as black as the
ground.

Blastie, a shrivelled dwarf, a term of contempt, full of mischief.

Blastit, blasted.

Blate, bashful, sheepish.
Blather, bladder.

Blaud, a flat piece of anything, to
slap.

Blaudin-shower, a heavy driving rain; a blauding signifies a beating.

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Blaw, to blow, to boast; "blaw i' my lug," to flatter.

Bleerit, bedimmed, eyes hurt with
weeping.

Bleer my een, dim my eyes.
Bleezing, bleeze, blazing, flame.
Blellum, idle talking fellow.
Blether, to talk idly.
Bleth'rin, talking idly.
Blink, a little while, a smiling
look, to look kindly, to shine
by fits.

Blinker, a term of contempt: it
means, too, a lively engaging
girl.

Blinkin', smirking, smiling with the eyes, looking lovingly. Blirt and blearie, out-burst of grief,

with wet eyes.

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Blue-gown, one of those beggars who get annually, on king's birth-day, a blue cloak or gown with a badge.

Bluid, blood.

Blype, a shred, a large piece.
Bobbit, the obeisance made by a

lady.

Bock, to vomit, to gush intermit

tently.

Bocked, gushed, vomited.

Braik, an instrument for rough-
dressing flax.

Brainge, to run rashly forward, to
churn violently.

Braing't, "the horse braing't,"

plunged and fretted in the
harness.

Brak, broke, became insolvent.
Branks, a kind of wooden curb for
horses.
Brankie, gaudy.

Brash, a sudden illness.
Brats, coarse clothes, rags, &c.
Brattle, a short race, hurry, fury.
Braw, fine, handsome.
Brawlys, or brawlie, very well,
finely, heartily, bravely.
Braxies, diseased sheep.
Breastie, diminutive of breast.
Breastit, did spring up or forward;
the act of mounting a horse.
Brechame, a horse-collar.
Breckens, fern.

Breef, an invulnerable or irresisti-
ble spell.

Breeks, breeches.

Brent, bright, clear; "a brent
brow," a brow high and
smooth.

Brewin', brewing, gathering.
Bree, juice, liquid.
Brig, a bridge.

Brunstane, brimstone.

Brisket, the breast, the bosom.
Brither, a brother.
Brock, a badger.
Brogue, a hum, a trick.
Broo, broth, liquid, water.
Broose, broth, a race at country

weddings; he who first reaches
the bridegroom's house on re-
turning from church wins the
broose.

Browst, ale, as much malt liquor
as is brewed at a time.
Brugh, a burgh.

Bodle, a copper coin of the value Bruilsie, a broil, combustion.

of two pennies Scots.

Bogie, a small morass.
Bonnie, or bonny, handsome, beau-
tiful.

Bonnock, a kind of thick cake of
bread, a small jannock or loaf
made of oatmeal. See Ban-

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Bow-hought, out-kneed, crooked at Bummler, a blunderer, one whose

the knee joint.

Brackens, fern.

Bowt, bowlt, bended, crooked.

noise is greater than his work.
Bunker, a window-seat.
Bure, did bear.

Brae, a declivity, a precipice, the Burn, burnie, water, a rivulet, a

slope of a hill.

Braid, broad.

small stream which is heard
as it runs.

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Cannie, gentle, mild, dexterous.
Cannilie, dexterously, gently.
Cantie, or canty, cheerful, merry.
Cantraip, a charm, a spell.
Cap-stane, cape-stone, topmost
stone of the building.
Car, a rustic cart with or without
wheels.

Careerin', moving cheerfully.
Castock, the stalk of a cabbage.
Carl, an old man.

Carl-hemp, the male stalk of hemp,
easily known by its superior
strength and stature, and
being without seed.
Carlin, a stout old woman.
Cartes, cards.

Caudron, a cauldron.

Cauk and keel, chalk and red clay.
Cauld, cold.

Caup, a wooden drinking vessel, a

cup.

Cavie, a hen-coop.

Chanter, drone of a bagpipe.
Chap, a person, a fellow.
Chaup, a stroke, a blow.
Cheek for chow, close and united,
brotherly, side by side.
Cheekit, checked.
Cheep, a chirp, to chirp.
Chiel, or cheal, a young fellow.
Chimla, or chimlie, a fire-grate,
fire-place.

Chimla-lug, the fire-side.
Chirps, cries of a young bird.
Chittering, shivering, trembling.
Chockin, choking.

Chow, to chew; a quid of tobacco
Chuckie, a brood-hen.

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Craft, or croft, a field near a house, in old husbandry.

Craig, craigie, neck.

Craiks, cries or calls incessantly, a bird, the corn-rail. Crambo-clink, or crambo-jingle, rhymes, doggrel verses. Crank, the noise of an ungreased wheel-metaphorically inharmonious verse. Crankous, fretful, captious. Cranreuch, the hoar-frost, called in Nithsdale "frost-rhyme." Crap, a crop, to crop. Craw, a crow of a cock, a rook. Creel, a basket, to have one's wits

in a creel, to be crazed, to be fascinated.

Creshie, greasy.

Crood, or Croud, to coo as a dove. Croon, a hollow and continued

moan; to make a noise like the low roar of a bull; to hum a tune. Crooning, humming. Crouchie, crook-backed. Crouse, cheerful, courageous. Crously, cheerfully, courageously. Crowdie, a composition of oatmeal,

boiled water and butter; | sometimes made from the broth of beef, mutton, &c. &c. | Crowdie time, breakfast time. Crowlin, crawling, a deformed creeping thing. Crummie's nicks, marks horns of a cow. Crummock, Crummet, a cow with crooked horns.

ice, practised in Scotland, called curling.

Curlie, curled, whose hair falls naturally in ringlets.

Curling, a well-known game on the ice.

Curmurring, murmuring, a slight rumbling noise.

Curpin, the crupper, the rump.
Curple, the rear.

Cushat, the dove, or wood-pigeon. Cutty, short, a spoon broken in the middle.

Cutty Stool, or, Creepie Chair, the seat of shame, stool of repentance.

D.

Daddie, a father.
Daffin, merriment, foolishness.
Daft, merry, giddy, foolish; Daft-
buckie, mad fish.

Daimen, rare, now and then; Daimen icker, an ear of corn occasionally.

Dainty, pleasant, good-humoured,
agreeable, rare.
Dandered, wandered.
Darklins, darkling, without light.
Daud, to thrash, to abuse; Daudin-
showers, rain urged by wind.
Daur, to dare; Daurt, dared.
Daurg, or Daurk, a day's labour.
Daur, daurna, dare, dare not.
Davoc, diminutive of Davie, as
Davie is of David.
Dawd, a large piece.
Dawin, dawning of the day.
Dawtit, dawtet, fondled, caressed.
Dearies, diminutive of dears,

sweethearts.

Dearthfu', dear, expensive.
Deave, to deafen.

Deil-ma-care, no matter for all

that.

Deleerit, delirious.

Descrive, to describe, to perceive. Deuks, ducks.

Dight, to wipe, to clean corn from chaff.

Ding, to worst, to push, to surpass, to excel.

Dink, neat, lady-like.
Dinna, do not.

on the Dirl, a slight tremulous stroke or pain, a tremulous motion. Distain, stain.

Crummock driddle, walk slowly,

leaning on a staff with a crooked head.

Crump-crumpin, hard and brittle, spoken of bread; frozen snow yielding to the foot.

Crunt, a blow on the head with a cudgel.

Cuddle, to clasp and caress. Cummock, a short staff, with a crooked head.

Curch, a covering for the head, a kerchief.

Curchie, a curtesy, female obei

sance.

Curler, a player at a game on the

Dizzen, a dozen.

Dochter, daughter.

Doited, stupified, silly from age. Dolt, stupified, crazed; also a fool. Donsie, unlucky, affectedly neat

and trim, pettish.

Doodle, to dandle.

Dool, sorrow, to lament, to mourn. Doos, doves, pigeons.

Dorty, saucy, nice.

Douse, or douce, sober, wise, pru

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