Robert Burns - The Letters.
LII.-To MR. ROBERT AINSLIE
.[38]ARROCHAR, 28th June 1787.
My dear sir,—I write this on my tour through a country where
savage streams tumble over savage mountains, thinly overspread
with savage flocks, which sparingly support as savage
inhabitants. My last stage was Inverary—to-morrow night's stage
Dumbarton. I ought sooner to have answered your kind letter, but
you know I am a man of many sins. R. B.
[38] A young
writer in Edinburgh.