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Awfm Ndrrdtirf.-Thef following inter- es,ing account is given by the late Dr. Cur rie, of Liverpool, in letter to Sir Walter Scott when editor several years ago of''the MinstrcIsy of the Scottish Border" It has hardly parallel in its kind:--"I once in my early days,'' says Dr. Gurrie, "heard <for it was night could not see,) travel

 Ter drowning, not in the Amman itself, but in the firth of Solway, close by the mouth of that river. The influx of the tide had unhorsed him in the night, as he was passing the Cumberland sands. The west wind blew tempest, and, according to the common expression, brought in the water, four feet abreast. The traveller got upon standing net, little way from the shore. There he lashed himself to post, shouting for half an hour for assistance, till the tide rose over his head In the darkness of the night, and amid the pauses ofthe hurricane lis>goice, heard at intervals was exquisitely inournful. No one could go to his assist .ance,--no one knew where he was:-the sound seemed to proceed from Ethe spirit of water. But morning rosc-- ,and the poor traveller was found dashed to the pole of the net, and bleaching in the wind.' It is hardly conceivable that any incident ever occurred better calculated to excite the strongest sympathies in human beings: and it is told in manner, and with brevity and feeling that could not be improved.