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j^ J^_r JC. j—r "^ w« »-» t ^^, r * <*• * *-. , t j *^ «% ««. •"* T j »_,*—«•e great desolate castle of Caerlaveroek near Sol way Firth, The old churchyard of Dumfries reminded us of Pere la Chaise in its forest of tombs, but was far more picturesque. Burns is buried there, with all his family. The1, exaggerated worship which follows Burns in Scotland rather sets one a.gainst him, and shows how many a saint got into the Calendar ; for there an* many then1 whose private lives would as little bear inspection as his. His son, formerly a clerk in Somerset House, had long been living at Dumfries upon a pension, and died there three years before our visit. Many are the old red sandstone gravestones in Dumfries and its neighborhood bearing inscriptions to Covenanters, telling how they were ^martyrs fur adhering to the word of Cod, Christ's kingly government in his house, and the covenanted work of Reformation against tyrannic, perjury, and prelade,1*