Chambers's Edinburgh Journal
When a naturalist is desirous of describing any genus of peculiar interest in the world of nature, we generally find him selecting one of the kind as a specimen from which to draw his description of the whole race; satisfied that, although distinctions may exist in minor detai...
We fear that no such plan is at present practicable. There is too much prejudice among the labouring-class against their employers to admit of its being received with general fa...
3. Part 3Another pest are the _dullals_ (brokers), who haunt the markets, and levy a handsome per-centage on everything that is bought and sold. 'Go into the _chouk_,[4] and attempt to p...
2. Part 2As the new-comer is only a half-boarder, it cannot of course be expected that the head of an establishment of pretensions equal to the one of which we are speaking should hersel...
4. Part 4At Quistrom I was shown into a large room in an upper floor, uncarpeted, but strewed thickly with small pieces of pine spray and juniper bush, the scent of which is abundantly p...
1. Part 1When a naturalist is desirous of describing any genus of peculiar interest in the world of nature, we generally find him selecting one of the kind as a specimen from which to dr...
6. Part 6'The situation of Miss Drysdale's cottage, to which she has judiciously given the native name of the locality, Barrangoop, which signifies a turf, is on a gentle grassy slope to...