_- extensive and delightful view of the Forth and its’shores. In fits of musing medit ee eae tion, he was wont to sit here in bad weather, and even at other times, and ‘to bewai a ma <, his ever having left his island. This recluse and unnatural propensity, as it appeared | to them, was. cause of great grief to his parents, who often remonstrated with® and endeavoured to raise his spirits. But their efforts were made in vain; nay, he ; sometimes broke out before them in a passion of grief, and exclaimed, ‘‘Oh; omy. beloved island! I wish I had never left thee! I never was before the man I was thee! I have not been such since I left thee! and, I fear, never can be again!” . Having plenty of money, he purchased a boat for himself, and often, when the wea=-. __ “ther would permit, he made little excursions, but always alone; and day after day he: = 5 . spent in ‘fishing, either in the beautiful bay of Largo, or at Kingscraig Point, where’ he would loiter till-evening among its romantic cliffs, catching lobsters, his favour: amusement, as they reminded him of the crawfish of Juan Fernandez. “It was thus he lived during his short stay at home, evidently far from being happy” vor contented. The visions he had formed of domestic life could not be realized, and he remained among his friends only because he knew not what better to do with him- ‘self.. He found he was not fitted for society; his enjoyments were all solitary; his pleasures were wholly derived from himself; he felt oppressed by the kind attentions of _ strangers. At length chance threw an object in his way, that awakened in his mind anew train of thoughts and feelings, and roused him from his lethargy. In his wan- derings up the burn side of Keil’s Den, to the ruins of Baleruivie Castle and its roman- tic neighbourhood, he often met a young girl, seated alone, tending’a single cow, the propérty of her parents. - Her lonely occupation and innocent looks made a deep