Produced by The Internet Library of Early Journals; Jon Ingram, Donald Perry and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE. * * * * * NO. CCCXLVI. AUGUST, 1844. VOL. LVI. * * * * * CONTENTS. AFFGHANISTAN ETCHED THOUGHTS BY THE ETCHING CLUB A LOVE CHASE--IN PROSE ANCIENT CANAL--THE NILE AND THE RED SEA THE OLD SCOTTISH CAVALIER TRADITIONS AND TALES OF UPPER LUSATIA. NO. III. THE DWARF'S WELL SOME REMARKS ON SCHILLER'S MAID OF ORLEANS THE STOLEN CHILD M. GIRARDIN LORD ELDON * * * * * EDINBURGH: WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS; 45, GEORGE STREET; AND 22, PALL-MALL, LONDON. _To whom all Communications (post paid) must be addressed_ SOLD BY ALL THE BOOKSELLERS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM. * * * * * PRINTED BY BALLANTYNE AND HUGHES, EDINBURGH. BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE. * * * * * NO. CCCXLVI. AUGUST, 1844. VOL. LVI. * * * * * AFFGHANISTAN. There are those persons now living who would give their own weight in sovereigns, though drawing against thirteen to sixteen stone, that all of this dreadful subject might be swallowed up by Lethe; that darkness might settle for ever upon the insanities of Cabool; and the grave close finally over the carnage of Tezeen. But it will not be. Blood will have blood, they say. The madness which could sport in levity with a trust of seventeen thousand lives, walks upon the wind towards heaven, coming round by gusts innumerable of angry wailings in the air; voices from nobody knows where are heard clamouring for vengeance; and the caves of Jugdulloc, gorged with the "un-coffined slain," will not rest from the litanies which day and night they pour forth for retribution until this generation shall have passed away.