"Scotland has probably produced a more patriotic and more extended minstrelsy than any other country in the world.
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Those Caledonian harp-strains, styled by Sir Walter Scott "gems of our own mountains," have frequently been gathered into caskets of national song, but have never been stored in any complete cabinet; while no attempt has been made, at least on an ample scale, to adapt, by means of suitable metrical translations, the minstrelsy of the Ga l for Lowland melody. "Scotland has probably produced a more patriotic and more extended minstrelsy than any other country in the world