This prophecy is said to be the reason why so many kings of Scotland,
Norway, and Ireland have selected Icombkill for the place of their
interment.


DUMBARTON.

So cold the waters are of Lomond Lake,
What once were sticks, they hardened stones will make.


PERTH.

"Fear not till Birnam Wood
Do come to Dunsinane"

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RETROSPECTIVE GLEANINGS


GREEK BALLOT.--VOTING AMONG THE ANCIENT GREEKS.


The manner of giving their suffrages (says Potter) was by holding up
their hands. This was the common method of voting among the citizens
in the civil government; but in some cases, particularly when they
deprived magistrates of their offices for mal-administration, they