opposite to the promontory of Old Melrose, was extremely striking and picturesque; and the view, looking back from the high ground towards the Eildon hills and Melrose, over the varied vale of the Tweed, till the eye was arrested by the distant mountains, then seen under a rich Claude effect; and the devious course of the river, betrayed by fragments of water that sparkled here and there amid the yellow stubbles and green pastures, was exquisitely beautiful.  But nothing gave so much interest to this glorious scene as the far-off woods of Abbotsford, then dimmed by the warm haze, and melting, as it were, from their reality, and so reminding us even yet more forcibly of the fleeting nature of all the things of this perishable world.

Having descended from our elevation, we entered the grounds of Dryburgh.  These occupy a comparatively level space, embraced by a bold sweep of the Tweed, where the house of Dryburgh and the picturesque ruins of Dryburgh Abbey, standing about two hundred yards distant from it, are surrounded by groups of noble trees of all sorts, rare as well as common; and among them the cedar is seen to throw out his gigantic limbs with that freedom and vigour which could only be looked for on his native Lebanon.  The hearse drew up close to the house of Dryburgh; and the, company, having quitted their carriages, pressed eagerly towards it, Not one word was spoken; but, as if all had been under the influence of some simultaneous instinct, they decently and decorously formed themselves into two lines.  The servants of the deceased, resolved that no hireling should lay hands on the coffin of their master, approached the hearse.  Amongst these, the figure of the old coachman who had driven Sir Walter for so many years was peculiarly remarkable, reverentially bending to receive the coffin.  No sooner did that black casket appear, which contains all that now remains of the most precious of Scotia’s jewels, than, with downcast eyes and with countenances expressive of the deepest veneration, every individual present took off his hat.  A moment’s delay took place, whilst the faithful and attached servants were preparing to bear the body, and whilst the relatives were arranging themselves around it in the following order:—­

HEAD. 
Major Sir WALTER SCOTT, eldest son of the deceased.

RIGHT.  LEFT.

CHARLES SCOTT, T J.G.  LOCKHART, Esq.,
second Son.  H Son-in-Law. 
E
CHARLES SCOTT, JAMES SCOTT, Esq.,
of Nesbitt, Cousin. of Nesbitt, Cousin. 
B
WILLIAM SCOTT, Esq., O ROBERT RUTHERFORD, Esq.,
of Raeburn, Cousin.  D W.S., Cousin. 
Y
Colonel RUSSELL, .  HUGH SCOTT, Esq.,
of Ashiesteel, Cousin. of Harden.

FOOT. 
WILLIAM KEITH, Esq., of Edinburgh.