43/791 [Sonnet XXV.] 'On revisiting Dunolly Castle.' This ingenious piece of workmanship, as I afterwards learned, had been executed for their own amusement by some labourers employed about the place. *_In the Frith of Clyde_ .-- _Ailsa Crag during an eclipse of the sun, July_ 17, 1833. [XXIII.] The morning of the eclipse was exquisitely beautiful while we passed the Crag, as described in the sonnet. On the deck of the steamboat were several persons of the poor and labouring class; and I could not but be struck with their cheerful talk with each other, while not one of them seemed to notice the magnificent objects with which we were surrounded; and even the phenomenon of the eclipse attracted but little of their attention. |