Where they lie interred ; and the romantic ideas attached to their ancient traditions, and the peculiarities of Iheir present life,their wild and enthusiastic poetry,iheir gloomy superstitions,Iheir atlachment lo their chiefs,the dangers, and llie hardships, and enjoyments of their lonely buntings and fishings,their pasloral shielings on the mountains in summer,and the tales and the sports that amuse the little groups lhat are frozen into their vasl and trackless valleys in the winter. Add to all this the traces of vast and obscure antiquity that are impressed on the language and the habits of the people, and on Ihe cliffs and caves and gulfy torrents of the land; and llie solemn and touching reflection, perpetually recurring, of the weakness and insignificance of perishable man, whose generations thus pass away into oblivion, wilh all their toils and ambition, while Nature holds on her unvarying course, and pours out her streams, and renews her forests, wilh undecaying activity, regardless of the fate of her proud and perishable sovereign.We set all this down at random, from the vague and casual recollection of Ihe impressions we have ourselves received from this sort of scenery, by no means as an exact transcript of the images and feelings which it must excite in all beholders, but merely as a specimen of the manner in w hich il operates on the heart and imagination, and of the nature of lhat connection which is established between our natural sympathies and Ihe visible peculiarities of our mountain landscape. The truth is, thai there is an endless variety in the trains of thought to which this kind of scenery is calculated to give rise; and lhat il differs essentially, in ibis respect, from the scenery of a more cultivated region, where there is scarcely any very decided expression but that of comfort and tranquillity.