Scotland/Scots > Reminiscences of a Highland parish

THE MINISTER AND HIS WORK.
JN Dr Macculloch’s “Tour to the Highlands of
Scotland,” we have the most perfect and
eloquent descriptions of scenery; but in Dr John¬
son’s, the truest yet most complimentary delinea¬
tion of the character and manners of the people.
The physical features of the country are, no doubt,
abiding, while its social condition is constantly
changing; so that we can now-a-days more easily
recognise the truth of the sketches by the former
than by the latter tourist. But the minister of
whom I write, and the manners of his time, be¬
longed to the era of Johnson, and not to that of
Macculloch.
There is something, by the way, peculiarly