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Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, Vol. 1 (of 2)
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Dorothy Wordsworth
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Here,
as
on
the
Nith,
and
much
more
than
in
the
Trough
of
the
Clyde,
a
great
portion
of
the
ground
was
uncultivated,
but
the
hills
being
less
wild,
the
river
more
stately,
and
the
ground
not
heaved
up
so
irregularly
and
tossed
about,
the
imperfect
cultivation
was
the
more
to
be
lamented,
particularly
as
there
were
so
many
houses
near
the
river.
In
a
small
enclosure
by
the
wayside
is
a
pillar
erected
to
the
memory
of
Dr.
Smollett,
who
was
born
in
a
village
at
a
little
distance,
which
we
could
see
at
the
same
time,
and
where,
I
believe,
some
of
the
family
still
reside.
There
is
a
long
Latin
inscription,
which
Coleridge
translated
for
my
benefit.
The
Latin
is
miserably
bad[90]--as
Coleridge
said,
such
as
poor
Smollett,
who
was
an
excellent
scholar,
would
have
been
ashamed
of.
[Footnote
90:
The
inscription
on
the
pillar
was
written
by
Professor
George
Stuart
of
Edinburgh,
John
Ramsay
of
Ochtertyre
and
Dr.
Samuel
Johnson;
for
Dr.
Johnson's
share
in
the
work
see
Croker's
Boswell,
p.
392.--J.
C.
S.]
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