I OUR OF SCO'l 0. 569 



<>od and the countn bounded on the 



.1 lofty chain of hh the north by the 



Fort iig the opjy> ways 



in view. 



* miles! imburgh, is a handfome 



i borough, antiently thr c of the p< 



f whofe rattle, which gave (heir 

 1 ird II. in hi> flight from Bannocburn, fcarceljr 

 tains, place arc prefcrved fome 



oftl> h pikes, 6 ells in length, the unwieldy 



implements of attack and defence in former ages. 

 " A iglifh writer wh I : the 



:hall a bare ringer pierce through 

 the (kin of an angry hedge-hog, as any encounter 

 the fron: 



.cc the road is perfectly level to 

 lington, the capital of the county of Had Lo- 

 rly a pl.u*e of t: . confcquencc, at 



prefent a poor royal borough. 



A lew miles further, we pals the rtcl iton 



the brave colonel ( i : loft his lirl- 



near his own garden w.: n 3000 half-armed 



Highlanders, defeated, and almoll cut to-pieccs, the 

 royal nded by general Cope. At a 



fhort cliftance (lands the large village of Mu (Tel burgh, 

 at the mouth of the river Klk. The Forth at this 

 place, hath the .'. .ce of an ini . widen- 



ing from 9 n ' its rn: ro 1 8 miles bc- 



:i MufTelburgh and I .argo Bay, in Fifcfhire. 

 'I'hough now within 6 n Edinburgh, the tra- 



velle it of that city till he hath 



d at thr b. Arthur's ' he finds 



himfelf at once ;:noke and bufincfs. 



This metropolis is fiiuated in 55 derjrec^, 57 

 minutes north latitude, and 3 degrees, 14 m;:. 



longit 1 >ndon. 



Diftant from that city, by Carliflc, 396 miles n QO 



. by Woolcr and Kelfo, 378 i by i f j3J 



Diftant 



