Crossword-Solution: BALCLUTHA 9 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 16

Finally, as our guns wanted discharging and cleaning after the late showers, we fired them off, and so soon as the natives saw us first handle and then discharge them, off they went, and returned to Balclutha no more.

Woody Morven, and echoing Sora, and Selma with its silent halls!—we all owe them a debt of gratitude, and when we are unjust enough to forget it, may the Muse forget us! Choose any one of the better passages in Macpherson’s _Ossian_ and you can see even at this time of day what an apparition of newness and power such a strain must have been to the eighteenth century:— ‘I have seen the walls of Balclutha, but they were desolate.

The solitude which surrounds the dwelling and the tomb of the dark-haired child of the wilderness, involuntarily brought to mind that beautiful passage of Ossian, [330] relating to the daughter of Reuthamir, the "white-bosomed" Moina:--"I have seen the walls of Balclutha, but they were desolate.

And yet this most excellent church is comparatively empty--desolate--reminding one painfully of Ossian's picture of Balclutha's walls.

Not that the house has now that "desolation something like Balclutha's" which Charles Lamb attributed to it more than half a century ago.