5i2 OF Till 1AST COAST FROM THE 



for the heavy, though unprodu&ivc duty on coals, 

 might be fared. Of the many evils under the fun, 

 this is not the leall, in a country where rhe far 

 who dies worth above xool. is laid to die amazingly 

 rich. 



The coaft from Montrofe fouthward is high, bold, 

 and rockv, and hath many curious openings, and fub- 

 tcrraneous vorthy the attention of travell- 



Ion to the Jca, with a narrow entrance, 



and inrtantly rife within in: .mil fpacious vaults, 



and io extensively meandering, that no one hath had 

 the courage thoroi them. Others fliew 



amagnificent entrance, divided in the middle by a vaft 

 column, forming two arches, of a height and iTaiuleur 

 that fhame the works of art, in the moll Ilupendous 



he Gothic cathedrals. The cavern called the 

 Gey 1 it-pot aftonilhes every llranger; where he em- 

 barks in a fubterraneous voyage, rinds himlelf amidll 

 the mod iblemn fcenery imaginable, proceeds on till 

 he comes in fight of the clouds, fun and fky, and 

 lands amidil corn fields, at a confiderable difbnce 

 from the fea, where he embarked. Many of the ftu- 

 pendous peninfulated rocks of the coaft are joined 

 to the land by narrow defiles, where only two or three 

 perfons can pafs a-hreaft, and whole tops were, in bar- 

 barous times, formed into rude fortifications, of which 

 fome veftiges (till remain. On the promontory of 

 Red-head are the ruins of an antient callle, once a 

 refidcnce of William the Lion, who began his reign 

 in 1165. It (lands on the ibuth fide of Lunan b.; 

 a fine femicircular balbn, open to eaflerly winds, 

 but where many diflrefied veflels are glad to take 

 (belter. 



:rteen miles from Montrofe, (lands the antient 



al borough of Arbroath, or Aberbrothic, in a f 

 bottom, at the mouth of the Jmall river Brothic. It 

 is a fmall manufacturing town, particularly in ofna- 

 burghs, white and coloured thread ; which, with 

 barley and wheat, compolc its principal exports. A 



natural 



