the party undertook to swim to the island and bring away the boat; when,
just as he was catching hold of a rock to get ashore, a heroine, called
Helen Stuart, met him and cut off his head with a sword; upon which the
party, seeing the fate of their comrade, thought proper to withdraw."

Loch Katrine is about ten miles long, and one broad. Its depth in some
parts is nearly 500 feet. Its temperature, at the surface, is 62°, and at
the bottom 40°. The lake never freezes, and in winter is much resorted to
by swans.

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PORTRAIT-PAINTING.


Painters of history make the dead live, and do not live themselves till
they are dead, I paint the living, and they make me live.--_Sir Godfrey
Kneller_.

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THE SELECTOR; AND LITERARY NOTICES OF _NEW WORKS_.

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PRACTICE OF COOKERY,