The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware register., 1825-09-29
From a Scotch Paper.
INTERESTING; CIRCUMSTANCE.

From Scotch Paper.
INTERESTING CIRCUMSTANCES.
Not long since, w. Rowan, labourcr, from
New Galloway. went out to cut peat on a |
moss near the summit of the hill OF Lowrane,
a very high, remote and solitary place. he
took his son along with hi y. little boy Oh
about four wears OF age. Alter having been
employed for short ime, he missed tne
child, who had been u.nusing himscH IN
chasing a kid, which he had found on tne
hill, and he became alarmed lest he should
have fallen into one OF the many moss pi.s'
or quagmires, or stumbled over some OF the
rocks or precipices with which the place
abounds. No trace Of the boy, however
could be found. III vain did they call upon
his name, for no answer was returned. ne
natural anxiety of the father, whose feeiinHs
may be easily conceived, led him from place
to place with the utmost rapidity, sometimes
finding the prints of his sons ieet IN the
: soft part ofthe moss, but he never dreamea
of crossing high stone wall or dyke, whlch
runs on the south side ofthe moss alluded 10
down the steep and rocky side OF the noun
tain, to the margin of the Dee, which flows
on one side, and Loeb Ken on the other.
Over this dyke he conceived 1t Impossible
for the child to have climbed. In the even
ing he found means to send to New Gallo
way an account of the circumstance, AUD
several humane persons, accompanied oy
the distracted mother, CANE TO aid his search
for the poor child in this wild and rocky
moor! One of them happening to cross
over the stone wall alluded to, perceived
there the impression of the boys footsteps,
and these were occasionally traced all the
way down to the margin of the Dec, where
they lost all trace Of the unfortunate llttie
wanderer, and were filed with the most
painful apprehensions that he must have
been CARVED away by the stream. 1oihg
along its banks, and crossing dykes ana
sleeps, which they conceived almost lmpos-
sibie that the child could have climbed, they
again found the print Of his naked feet on the
soft sand of small riv,let, and by applying
a measure which they had taken OF the
former impressions, they found it exactly te
correspond d.--Fhcy were therefore induced
still to go forward, though they had now
proceeded upwards Of four miles from the
place of their first setting out. In this track
they passed the Stroan Doch, piece OF wa
ter of great depth, which IS merely an eX
pansion of the Dee, accompanied BY tht
anxious father and mother, without hndinS
any further traces of the boy. Night wa
coming down upon the heath; and as thu
search had continued eleven hours, over I
rugged space of FIVE miles, they thought o
rctracins their steps, in despalr--the DIS
tracted mother tearing her hair and startin'
at every white stone, and hguring 10 her
self the horrid spectacle of the torn corps
of her child at the bottom OF every Cliff 0
atream which they passed
"Hark to the hurried question Of despair.
"Where is my child" and echo answers,
aWherei
At this time one Of the party, who had bee
before the rest, on looking into the stream Q
The Dee, found handkerchief round ston
in the channel Of the river, which he recog
nised to be that Of the child, and had litti
doubt but that he would be found drowne
near this place in the stream. FL called th
rest II tine party p approach, when lii
tie farther down the bank, he perceive
the hey with his feet in fiie water, and h
head resting On stone in quiet sleep. "jem
my Jammy!" cried the trembling fAthe
ARE YOU aliyes'' The little pilgrim, liftln
his head IRON his rocky pillow, exclalmet
80 fatheri is il you2 IWat for did ye n
come heth me catch The wee kid2 The iittl
fellows cap was filled with pebbles, wit
which he had pursued the kid from roc
to rock, from moss to moss, and through III
openings of stone dykes, for upwards ct s.
miles, barefooted, over one of the most rug
ged tracks in the South OF Scotland, an
having been for twelve hours without tastln
morsal of food. The sudden joy OF ii
mother had nearly cost her life, but q
young wanderer, in whom we may progno
ticate some future Huelboldt or Mackenzi
has not suffered any injury from his long pt
regrination: and his safety, amid the man
perils with which he was beset, seems almo
miraculous, and strongly marks the protec
ing care of Divine Providence.