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[1] Many in this neighbourhood, who read the Leveller's dream, will remember the original. Twenty years ago, I heard it related by the dreamer, with all the enthusiasm of a staunch admirer of Napoleon, and I have preserved his words and imagery as closely as I could recollect them.
[2] I have often remarked that the admirers of Napoleon were wont to speak of him as the great man.
[3] The Wells of Weary are now numbered with the things that were. The terminus of the Dalkeith and Edinburgh Railway tunnel, at the eastern end, has swept them away. They were the favourite resort, in the olden time, of the love-sick swains and maidens of the city. Many a soft tale of love was breathed there. It was a wild, sequestered spot—in our recollection like an oasis in a desert, rendered lovely by the neighbouring stillness and desolation.
[4] A nautical term for a forenoon whet.
[5] Langholm Distillery.
[6] A crimp is a person who receives a certain sum of money from shipowners for procuring sailors to man their vessels.
[7] Perfection
[8] Larry and his countrymen were all navigators, as they are called, or rather excavators, employed in digging canals, railways, docks, &c.