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facetiously, "Na, na, Mrs Glibbans, ye forget, there was nae changing of

uineas But not to rass will now let us hear what

Andrew Pringle, 'entle letter with due circumspection, and in his best

le, Esq, to the Reverend Charles Snodgrass MY DEAR FRIEND--I have heard it alleged, as the observation of a great

traveller, that the hout

Christendo them are

scarcely perceptible This is not correct; the differences between those

of London and Edinburgh are toIt is not that they

talk and perform the little etiquettes of social intercourse differently;

for, in these respects, they are apparently as similar as it is possible

for imitation to make them; but the difference to which I refer is an

indescribable so, which can only be compared to peculiarities of

accent They both speak the say the fashionable Scotchlishman; but there is a flatness of tone in his accent--a lack of what

the ives a local and provincial effect

to his conversation, however, in other respects, learned and intelligent

It is so with his manners; he conducts himself with equal ease,

self-possession, and discern