REMARKS 



ON T I! T. 



SHORT TOUR OF SCOTLAND, 



COMPREHENDING THE 



SOUTHERN DIVISION OF THAT KINGDOM, 



AND A CONSIDERABLE PORTION Ol 

 THE HIGHLANDS. 



A MONG the benefits arifing from turnpike 



J^JL roads, is that of travelling for health or plea- 



fure ' extu-.fivc and beautiful ifland. It is an 



..hiih an overgrown, luxurious capi- 



t,) 1 , .es a portion of its luperfluous riches 



thrciiL,!i eighty-five D . and an incredible 



)LT of villages, feme of whom confider the money 



main fupport. 

 On the oihf r hand, the reveller finds his curiofity 



f ratified, his knowledge extended, or his health re- 

 ored; while the fcencs of penury and dillrefs which 

 PR-lent thcmftlves to view, efptcially in the 

 r ries which we have been defcribing, will, in 

 omparifon, imprefs his heart with gratitude to- 

 If the Deity, and teach him a lefibn of content- 

 ment, which, till then, he poflibly never had the 

 pleafure of enjoying fo completely. 



Thus travelling diffufes reciprocal benefits, from 

 the centre, to the mod remote corners of Britain ; 

 and partly with a view to this important end, as w< II 

 as to lay open the internal ftate of the kingdom, I 



have 



