text:  I rejoice at that burst of patriotic feeling--I hail it as a presage that as Ayrshire has raised a graceful monument to Burns and Edinburgh has erected a noble structure to the Author of Waverley so Glasgow will ere long raise a worthy tribute to the bard whose name will never die while Hope pours its balm through the human heart; and Aberdeen will worthily commemorate the far-famed traveller who first inhaled the inspiration of nature amidst the clouds of Loch-nagarr and afterwards poured the light of his genius over those lands of the sun where his descending orb set-- "Not as in northern climes obscurely bright But one unclouded blaze of living light