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view, but mud feel greatly aftonifhed ; and more particularly 

 will the want appear, when it is alfo known, that in Mdntrofe, 

 Arbroath, Dundee, and Perth, places much fmaller than 

 Aberdeen, and not pofTefting any college eflablifhment, there 

 are fubfcription libraries, on the above plan ; nay, that Perth 

 hath alfo an Antiquarian Society ! Subjoined is a lift of fome 

 other places in North Britain, .enjoying the advantages of fuch 

 eftablifhments as I would recommend to Aberdeen ; fome 

 of whom, it is obvious, have not near the profpecl of fuccefs 

 that that place could command. 

 Glafgow, Paifley, Greenock, 

 Kilmarnock, Linlithgow, Haddington. 

 On the borders of Northumberland, Dunfe and Kelfo, 

 The annual fubfcription to none of theft is more, in fome 

 cafes not fo much, as to the Athaeneum of Aberdeen and others, 

 and they all pofTefs very excellent and increafing feleflions 

 of books. 



I am, Sir, 



Your's refpe&fully, 



A TRAVELLER, 



York Hotel, Bridge Street, 

 Black Friars. 



a«d to other re- P* S. I am forry to be informed that neither Invernefs, Banff, 

 fpetfable and or Peterhead, pofTefs fuch inflilutions, particularly the firft, which 

 prefents fuch an abundant number of objects to the antiquarian, 

 and is furrounded by, and contains, fo many gentlemen of 

 diftinguifhed liberality, and ingenuity; atthisplace thenorthern 

 meeting was eftablifhed for the avowed purpofe o promoting 

 intercourfe amongft difiant families, but how much more might 

 be effected of general amelioration and comfort, by the efla- 

 blifhment of a Literary and Antiquarian Society, iirwhich fub- 

 jecls connected with general improvement might be difcuffed, 

 and books in chemiftry, agriculture, and other more imme- 

 diately ufeful parts of knowledge, collected. 



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