Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 309

[Might we be permitted to add, in the most delicate way possible, that little is now read but Scotch periodicals! The only thing which seems to keep patriotically at home is Scotch sectarianism.]

1

Sterling's Sayings and Essayings.

2

I am told that these habits do not exist in good society at Christiania.

3

The greatest summer height of the Miösen Lake is 430 feet; the winter height, 410. Finding the level at this time ten feet below the mark considered as that of highest water, I considered the lake as being now 420 feet above the sea.

4

Laug in Norwegian signifies water. It is a generic term here specially applied.

5

See Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, September 1837, where the original ballad is also given.