The Rev. Dr Pringle to Mr. Micklewham, Schoolmaster and Session-
Clerk, Garnock--EDINBURGH.

Dear Sir--We have got this length through many difficulties, both in
the travel by land to, and by sea and land from Greenock, where we
were obligated, by reason of no conveyance, to stop the Sabbath, but
not without edification; for we went to hear Dr. Drystour in the
forenoon, who had a most weighty sermon on the tenth chapter of
Nehemiah. He is surely a great orthodox divine, but rather costive
in his delivery. In the afternoon we heard a correct moral lecture
on good works, in another church, from Dr. Eastlight--a plain man,
with a genteel congregation. The same night we took supper with a
wealthy family, where we had much pleasant communion together,
although the bringing in of the toddy-bowl after supper is a fashion
that has a tendency to lengthen the sederunt to unseasonable hours.

On the following morning, by the break of day, we took shipping in
the steam-boat for Glasgow. I had misgivings about the engine,
which is really a thing of great docility; but saving my concern for
the boiler, we all found the place surprising comfortable. The day
was bleak and cold; but we had a good fire in a carron grate in the
middle of the floor, and books to read, so that both body and mind
are therein provided for.

Among the books, I fell in with a History of the Rebellion, anent
the hand that an English gentleman of the name of Waverley had in
it. I was grieved that I had not time to read it through, for it
was wonderful interesting, and far more particular, in many points,
than any other account of that affair I have yet met with; but it's
no so friendly to Protestant principles as I could have wished.