so sensible and agreeable, has a beautiful style of speaking. I look forward to the pleasure of going there in summer to spend my holidays. Uncle invited me to go to Glenorchy last season but did not go as I had another excursion in view which was to Perthshire. I cannot almost express my ecstacy of feeling when I came to the Trosachs sailed up the Loch Katrime. Saw Ellen's Isle which is mentioned in Walter Scoot [Scott] poems of the Lady of Lake. The beauty, the grandeur and loftyness of the scenery in that Highland district is quite beyond my powers of description. I hope the time is not far off when you will be home to enjoy the delights of Scottish scenery yourself. I think nothing elevates or