500 OF THE EAST COAST FROM THE 



Vewburgh, which is accommodated with a har- 

 boi v fill-Is of irnall burden can 1< 



am . ; . ...live at the riv ; Don, over 



which a fine Gothic arch is flung from o k to 



other. irch, faid t been built by a 



,)out the year 1290, is 67 feet 



wide at the bottom, and 34 feet 6 inches high above 

 the furface of the v.hich, at ebb tide, is here 



19 feet deep. ".lilding is admired for its 1; 



appearance. Patting this bridge we arrive at > 

 Aberdeen, a place of little confequencc, though the 

 feat of a college, founded by bifhop Klphinilon in 

 1494. Or- jrther fbnds New Aberdeen, at the 



the Dee, in 57 deg. i2min. N. lat. 107 

 from Edinburgh, and 485 from London. 

 Aberdeen is a place of great antiquity ; if tradition 

 ;>lace of note in the reign of Gre- 

 gory king of Scotland, from whom, about the ) 

 893, it received fome privl but the oldell 



now remaining, was granted by Alexander 

 II. in 1217. By this charter the king grants to 

 Aberdern the fame privileges he had i ro his 



town o," Perth. In 100.; lm 11. founded a 



bifhoprick at a place called Mortlick in this county, 

 in memory of a fignal victory which he there gained 

 over the Danes; which bifhoprick was tranflated to 

 Old Aberdeen by David I. and in 1163, the then 

 bifhop of Aberdeen obtained a new charter from 

 Malcolm IV. 



In Scotland there are only 4ci: nburgh, 



the me; >\v, the riril place of trade and 



manufactures ; Aberdeen, the iecond in ditto ; and 



Andrews, now in ruins. Aberdeen, including 

 the Old Town, is fuppofcd to contain 25,000 } 

 pie ; it is a handfome, thriving town, but uni 

 inhabitants ;, the town 



of Pa:; -ugh it ! ir nor fliip- 



r of any kii: 

 magnitude imber of I -pie. N 



