Publisher's Synopsis
As he approached the swire at the head of the dell-that little delightful verge from which in one moment the eastern limits and shores of Lothian arise on the view-as he approached it, I say, and a little space from the height, he beheld, to his astonishment, a bright halo in the cloud of haze, that rose in a semicircle over his head like a pale rainbow. He was struck motionless at the view of the lovely vision; for it so chanced that he had never seen the same appearance before, though common at early morn.
