tjgi- antiquiiigi in Scotland, 2©^ 



true hero. Tcndernefs, joined with resolution, form, 

 indeed, a finilhed character. 



The affectation of great sensibility is extremely 

 common. It is, however, as odious as the reality is 

 amiable. It renders a man contemptible, and a wo- 

 man ridiculous. Instead of relieving the afflicted, 

 vrhich is the necefsary effect of genuine sympathy, a 

 character of this sort flies from misery, to ftiew that 

 it is too delicate to support the sight of distrefs.- 

 The appearance of a toad, or the jolting of a carriage, 

 will cause a paroxysm of fear. But it is remaikable 

 that this delicacy and tenderncfs often disappear in 

 solitude, and the pretender to uncommon sensibility 

 is frequently found, in the absence of witnefses, to 

 he uncommonly unfeeling, 



To have received a tender heart from the hand of 

 nature, is to have received the means of the greatest 

 blefsings. To have guided it by the dictates of rea;- 

 son, is to have acted up to the dignity of human na- 

 ture, and to have obtained that happinefs of which 

 the heart was constituted susceptible. 



May a temper, thus laudable in itself, never be 

 rendered contemptible by affectation, or uselefs by 

 neglect ! 



Edinburgh, r MeSCHEZABEEL. 



Jan. 20. 17^2.3 



ON VITRIFIED FORTIFICATIONS 



IN SCOTLAND. 



Continued from \o\.'ix. p. 216. 



5>iNCE the foregoing account of vitrilied fortlfica-^ 

 tions in Scotland was written, I have examined se^^ 



