Scotland/Scots > Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland

WESTERN ISLANDS, &c. 81
were prefent. A man on a journey far
from home falls from his horfe, another,
who is perhaps at work about the houfe, fees
him bleeding on the ground, commonly
with a landfcape of the place where the ac¬
cident befalls him. Another feer, driving
home his cattle, or v/andering in idlenefs,
or mufing in the funfhine, is fuddenly fur-
prifed by the appearance of a bridal cere¬
mony, or funeral procelfion, and counts
the mourners or attendants, of whom, if he
knows them, he relates the names, if he
knows them not, he can defcribe the drefles.
Things diftant are feen at the inftant when
they happen. Of things future I know not
that there is any rule for determining the
time between the Sight and the event.
This receptive faculty, for power it can¬
not be called, is neither voluntary nor con-
flant. The appearances have no depen¬
dence upon choice: they cannot be fum-
moned, detained, or recalled. The im-
D 5 preffion