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History of the Buchanite Delusion, 1783-1846
History of the Buchanite Delusion 17831846 Author:John Cameron General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1904 Original Publisher: R. G. Mann Subjects: Buchanites Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.... more »com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER IV. '' How wisdom and folly meet, mix, and unite, How virtue and vice blend their black and their white, How genius, the illustrious father of fiction, Confounds rule and law, reconciles contradiction, I sing- ." Robert Sums. SETTLEMENT IN CLOSEBURN -- COMMUNISM -- WORK WITHOUT WAGES -- RECRUITS -- JEAN GARDNER AND ROBERT BURNS -- AN OBSCURE EPISODE IN THE POET'S LIFE. The arrest of Hunter, and the temporary return to Irvine of so many members of the Society, having checked the onward march of the fanatics in search of heaven, they were compelled to look about for suitable quarters where they could await their return. They found these at the farm of New Cample, in the parish of Closeburn, about a mile to the south of Thornhill, on the road to Dumfries. The locality is interesting in itself. No visitor will fail to see Crichup (or Creehope) Linn, which is quite near; the famous haunt of the Covenanters a hundred years before the Buchanites came to add notoriety if not fame to the region round about. Crichup Linn was the supposed scene of many supernatural transactions among the fairies, who ever loved the wildest and most picturesque scenes. Here, when man was less in evidence and Nature more, the Elfin world held carnival at the " Elves Crag;" but these times passed, and the hunted Covenanters took their place, hiding from their 38 NEW CAMPLE. persecutors among clefts and caves inaccessible to all but the daring foot of him who would save his life. Here is the " Souter's Seat " -- cut out of the rock by Nature's elemental forces -- w...« less