If there be truth in these narratives, the “lowland lasses” of the creeks, have good reason for their peculiar liking to “highland laddies;” and “upland” girls had better “wither on the virgin thorn,” than marry “lowland” suitors and—
“Fall as the leaves do
And die in October.”
Far be it from the editor, to bring the worthy “neither fish nor flesh” swains, of the Kent and Essex fens and fogs, into contempt; he knows nothing about them. What he has set down he found in “the books,” and, having given his authorities, he wishes them every good they desire—save wives from the uplands.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
Mean Temperature 61·75.
[245] Universal Magazine.
[246] The Steam-boat Companion, by Thomas Nichols, 1823, p. 150.