Some further particulars of the conversations which occurred during this visit I should have set down, had they not been already accurately recorded by Mr.Lockhart.
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*_A Place of Burial in the South of Scotland_.

[III.] Similar places for burial are not unfrequent in Scotland.

The one that suggested this sonnet lies on the banks of a small stream, called the Wauchope, that flows into the Esk near Langholme.

Mickle, who, as it appears from his poem on Sir Martin, was not without genuine poetic feelings, was born and passed his boyhood in this neighbourhood, under his father, who was a minister of the Scotch Kirk.