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What faid ye to the bonny bairn, my boy Tammy?

I prais'd her een, fo lovely blue,

Her dimpled cheek, and cherry mou,—

I pree'd it aft as ye may true;

"She faid fhe'd tell her mammy.”

I held her to my beating heart, my young my fmiling lammy!

I hae a house, it cost me dear,

I've walth o' plenishan and geer,

"Ye'fe get it a', war't ten times mair,

"Gin ye will leave your mammy.”

The smile gade aff her bonny face,
"I man na leave my mammy;

"She's gi'en me meat, fhe's gi'en me claise;
"She's been my comfort a' my days;
"My father's death brought mony waes;
"I can na leave my mammy."

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Has the been to the kirk wi' thee, my boy Tammy ?
She has been to the kirk wi' me,

And the tear was in her ee,

But O fhe's but a young thing, just come frae her mammy

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Mea-dow g een, and Moun-tain grey, Cour-ting o' this young thing just cotne frae her Maxi-my,

SIR,

For the Bee.

THE public were often amufed fome years ago with crofs readings in the newspapers, in which, from cafual combinations of words, very curious ideas were fometimes produced. The following, though not of that clafs, owes its effect entirely to a fortuitous circumftance, that I suppose the ingenious writer has not adverted to. Dr. Blair, in his third volume of sermons, after an elegant dedication to her Majefty, chooses for the text of his first discourte, "Exalt her, and the shall promote thee; extol her, and the fhall bring thee to "honour."

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THE following is another laughable inftance of a text accidentally made choice of by a worthy clergyman, without adverting to the ufe that wags might make of it.--The reverend Mr. Enfield, Editor of the English Preacher, and many other valuable performances, preached from the following text the first Sunday after his marriage. Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, "O ye my friends, for the hand of God hath touched me.' Job xix.-21.

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REVIEW.

Sir John Sinclair's Statistics continued from our laft. ACCORDING to promise in last number, we now give, in a tabular form, an abstract of the first volume of the ftatistical account of Scotland, by means of which the reader will at one view fee the ftate of fome of the most important particulars that occur in this work, which will give rife to many reflections. It will appear to fome, to be, from this view of it, in fome refpect defective, as there are in the table many blanks; but this cannot in most cafes throw any blame upon the compilers; where facts have not been ascertained, it was not in their power to fupply them: and if in a few inftances fome particulars have been inadvertently paffed over, thefe deficiencies may be ftill made up in a fupplement, for the compofing of which this table may have its ufe. In justice to the ingenious writers of thefe memoirs however, it deferves to be noted, that many particulars of great curiofity and importance which are ftated in this volume, could not find admiffion into the table, fome of which will fall to be occafionally mentioned as we go along; but a perfect knowledge of them can only be obtained by confulting the work itself.

This table is divided into feventeen columns; the first con tains the name of the parish and the district in which it is fituated-The fecond, the total number of its inhabitants at prefent-The third, the average births-Fourth, marriages Fifth, deaths, per annum-The fixth marks the increase of perfons in the parish fince the year 1742, when an enumeration fomewhat of the fame fort with that now going on was made at the defire of Dr. Webster, who was then engaged in ftatistical inquiries, on which to ground his calculations for the fund to be appropriated to the benefit of clergymen's widows; calculations which the refult has fhewn to have been made with a furprifing degree of accuracy-The feventh column marks the decrease fince the fame period, where any thing of that kind has taken place-The eighth VOL. III

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denotes the perfons who have come into the parish to refide fince that period-And the ninth those who have left it— Unfortunately the facts refpecting these two laft particulars have scarcely in any cafe been accurately afcertained; a defect not only in this, but in almost all other statistical accounts that have been published-The tenth column marks the number of poor who receive public charity in the parish -And the eleventh the fums that are appropriated for their fupport-The twelfth is the number of horfes-Thirteenth cattle-Fourteenth, sheep maintained in the parish at the prefent time-The fifteenth is the amount of the ministers ftipend -The fixteenth the number of acres in the parish, which has been only in a few cafes afcertained by measurement-And the Seventeenth and last, is the total rental of the parish at the present time. On each of these heads we shall make a few curfory remarks.

Number of Perfons. This has been in the prefent cafe afcertained with great accuracy in general by actual enumeration; and it may be accounted perhaps the most accurate statement of this particular that ever has been published of any country. Not only are the numbers afcertained with precifion; but in moft cafes thefe are claffed according to their ages, and in a good many cafes they are also arranged according to their employments and condition. As an example, the following is the state of population in the parish of Croffmichael; the inhabitants of which are thus arranged by the Rev. Mr. John Johnfton.

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14 of which have only one inhabitant each; in one village there are 70, and in another 36 fouis; all the reft live in the country.

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In many other parishes the particulars are as minutely ftated, which cannot fail to give a fatisfactory view of the prefent internal state of this country: The following is the state of population of the parish of Kiltearn, by the RevMr. Harry Robertfon.

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