Genre:

Extract. Miscellaneous

Publications extracted:

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine

Subjects:

Astronomy, Time, Cosmology, Eschatology

    In an extract from the 'Noctes Ambrosianæ', the Ettrick Shepherd [James Hogg] charges Christopher North [John Wilson] with editing a magazine that has been 'deludin' and distracktin' men and women folk, till it's impossible for them to ken [...] if the Millennium be really close at haun'—or the present Solar System be calculated to last to a' eternity'.