560 SHORT TOUR OF SCOTLAND. 



furnifhccl tables, and handfome geldings to ride 

 upon to church or market, worth from 20 to 50 

 guineas each. 



Durham, capital of that biftiopric, hath alfo an 

 u edifice, built partly by the munifi 

 I king of Scotland ; and here, at the Red I 



; Her firft perceives the rural beauties of the 

 northern rivers, rolling over beds of mafly ftones 



:tons, craggy banks, ornamented with 

 trees, ihrubberies and viftas, enlivened with the 

 choruk-s of the feathered creation, proclaiming their 

 '.ude ro the Author of thefe fylvan habitations. 



Fro.n ihis reprefentation of the northern rivers, it 

 may be luppofed that the defcent on one fide, and 

 .1 cent on the other, are fomewhat diftreffing and 

 inconvenient, efpecially to thofe who travel in car- 

 riages, and who cannot, or will not, walk a little 

 way, either for their own fafcty, or the eafe of the 

 horfes. 



The ftage from Durham to Newcaftle being upon 

 high ground, commands the richeft, and mod ex- 

 tenfive profpects on the road from London to this 

 highly-cultivated country. The Tyne, a copious 

 ftrcam flowing from the weft, clofes thefe enchanting 

 views. On eroding this river we enter the county 

 of Northumberland, which extends 64 miles due 

 north to Berwic, where it borders with Scotland. 



Newcaftle is a county of itfelf, large, populous, 

 commercial, and flourifhing. It is properly the firft 

 mart of the north, in exports, imports, and fhipping, 

 beiides its coal-trade, which is immenie. Its prin- 

 cipal manufactures are thofe of glafs, bottles, hard- 

 ware, Ihip- building, and falt-works. Ships load and 

 unload as high as the bridge, between which and 

 Shields, 7 miles below, the river forms one con- 

 tinued harbour, furrounded with an extenfive coun- 

 try, rich in grain and pafturage. Provifions are 

 plentiful, good and cheap. But the glory of New- 

 caftle is its charitable foundations, though thefe be- 

 ing 



