Books and other items printed in Gaelic from 1871 to 1900 > Cunntas air boidhicheadan Ceann-Lochearn agus Edinample, or, A description of the beauties of Edinample and Lochearnhead

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None cama”
The manifestation most likely to result
from such thoughtless exposure to the night
airr would have been an attack of rheum¬
atism or some other inflammation, accord¬
ing to the particular diathesis of the faith¬
ful.
“After a short period of expectancy
on the part of those who were more
or less affected by the phenomenon,”
Really this is too much. The gifted divine
must he cutting jokes at the expense of
himself and friend. Or have Auroras the
same effect on the clerical mind, as the full
moon, or the dog days, have on the men¬
tally weak of other species %
“The streamers disappeared^ Human
life in Lochalsh returned to its wont¬
ed course.”
In other words, the Gallios of this West
Highland Laodicea relapsed into their us¬
ual condition of caring for none of these
things, or indeed, it must he confessed,
for very few of the important questions in
which their fellow creatures are interested.
We are not informed how ‘brute’ life com¬
ported itself under such trying circumstan¬
ces. Perhaps, if there happened to be any