But the great majority of the subscribers contributed only one hundred or two hundred pounds each.

A very few divines who were settled in the capital or in other large towns were able to purchase shares.

It is melancholy to see in the roll the name of more than one professional man whose paternal anxiety led him to lay out probably all his hardly earned savings in purchasing a hundred pound share for each of his children.

If, indeed, Paterson's predictions had been verified, such a share would, according to the notions of that age and country, have been a handsome portion for the daughter of a writer or a surgeon.
That the Scotch are a people eminently intelligent, wary, resolute and self possessed, is obvious to the most superficial observation.

That they are a people peculiarly liable to dangerous fits of passion and delusions of the imagination is less generally acknowledged, but is not less true.