And the Cramp might have taken me--but neither of us ever did--and a man, with a short neck or a long one, might as well shun the streets in perpetual fear of apoplexy, as a good swimmer evade water in dread of being drowned. As for swimming in my clothes--had I left them on the hither, how should I have looked on the thither side? BULLER. No man, in such circumstances, could, with any satisfaction to himself, have pursued his journey, even through the most lonesome places. BULLER. Describe the view from the summit. NORTH. I have no descriptive power--but, even though I had, I know better than that. Why, between Cruachan and Buchail-Etive lie hundreds on hundreds of mountains of the first, second, and third order--and, for a while at first, your eyes are so bewildered that you cannot see any one in particular; yet, in your astonishment, have a strange vision of them all--and might think they were interchanging places, shouldering one another off into altering shapes in the uncertain region, did not the awful stillness assure you that there they had all stood in their places since the Creation, and would stand till the day of doom. BULLER. You have no descriptive power! NORTH. All at once dominion is given you over the Whole. You gradually see Order in what seemed a Chaos--you understand the character of the Region--its Formation--for you are a Geologist, else you have no business--no right there; and you know where the valleys are singing for joy, though you hear them not--where there is provision for the cattle on a hundred hills--where are the cottages of Christian men on the green braes sheltered by the mountains--and where may stand, beneath the granite rocks out of which it was built, the not unfrequent House of God. BULLER. To-morrow we shall attend Divine Service-- NORTH. At Dalmally. BULLER. I long ago learned to like the ritual of the Kirk. I should like to believe in a high-minded purified Calvinist, who could embrace, in his brotherly heart, a high-minded purified English Bishop, with all his Episcopacy. NORTH. And why should he not, if he can recognise the Divine Spirit flowing through the two sets of sensible demonstrations? He can; unless the constitution of the Anglican Christian Religion wars, either by its dogmas or by its ecclesiastical ordinances, against his essential intelligence of Christianity. BULLER. And who shall say it does? NORTH. Many say it--not I. BULLER. And you are wise and good. NORTH.