First ideas

I have, therefore, watched, with nice attention, the first ideas which have occurred to me in visiting any new subject; and if a more intimate knowledge of it induces me afterwards to alter my opinion, I then inquire into the causes which influenced my former false judgment, that I may by this means increase or diminish them accordingly *. *[The situation of the HASELLS, of BURLEY, and of STONEASTON, on the extremity of table-land, may serve as examples.]