Minstrelsy of the Scottish border - National Library of Scotland

THE SCOTTISH BOIIDER. 387
WATER KELPIE.
NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED. REV. DR JAMIESON.
The principal design of the author of this piece was to
give a specimen of Scottish writing, more nearly ap-
proaching to the classical compositions of our ancient
bards, than that which has been generally followed for
seventy or eighty yeai's past. As the poem is desci'ip-
tive of the superstitions of the vulgar in the county of
Angus, the scene is laid on the banks of South Esk,
near the castle of Inverquharity, about five miles north
from Forfar.
It is with pleasure that the editor announces to the
literary world, that Dr Jamieson is about to publish a
complete Dictionary of the Scottish Dialect ;* his inti-
mate acquaintance with which is evinced in the follow-
ing stanzas.
* The work, here referred to, has since been publishtd, and forms
an invaluable digest of Scottish language and learning.