Among them, self-tormentors, so numerous in the higher classes of society, are rare.
406.

*_On the Frith of Clyde_ .-- _In a Steamboat_, [XXIV.] The mountain outline on the north of this island [Arran], as seen from the Frith of Clyde, is much the finest I have ever noticed in Scotland or elsewhere.
407.

'_There, said a Stripling_.' [XXXVII.] Mosgiel was thus pointed out to me by a young man, on the top of the coach on my way from Glasgow to Kilmarnock.

It is remarkable, that though Burns lived some time here, and during much the most productive period of his poetical life, he nowhere adverts to the splendid prospects stretching towards the sea, and bounded by the peaks of Arran on one part, which in clear weather he must have had daily before his eyes.

Yet this is easily explained.