$80 SHORT TOUR OF SCOTLAND. 



-.'tunes; manufactures and commerce, the 

 .r::, an -ie degree re lun .ed, 



by which pro] ill be r. 



amongft the inhabitants, which \s ill ill' centre 



in ground rents and bui! But the- growth of 



Edinburgh doth not reft upon the revival .ing 



fpirit amongft the inhabitants. This city is coniider- 

 ed as the modern Athens, in pol item-Is, icience and 

 literature. The writings of its piofeflbrs, divines, and 

 lawyers, are every where read and admired. In the 



: it hut!, long and juftly celebrated. 



A leminary thus qualified, will confcquenti 

 thither many {Indents from various parts of Europe 



ati; lemcn, as guardians, an<.' ; 



poi: ,...lter of the holpital during lite. Jn 17^7, it was 



opt i.tnd, and 



.omen, who then intended tor admittaiu . 



orward tl .1 hath been ranked an 



the firft charitable intlitutions in that city. 



hoi'j iral, ci.apcl, ftccple, and rotunda, arc much admi- 

 i>y the bcu judges in architecture. Through the rot, 

 is a . .in is a fine bouling green, . 



beautiful walks and llirubl ::e rotunda and g;i: 



open three evenings in tl: 



,al and n times a: 



_^s, when there is no concert, there is generally a 

 numerous and brilliant aHembly or the firrt people in the 

 xpences or" the ht '.; ed piineipally 



the rotunda, which niter di 



rally amount to 400!. annually ; by collections in tin 

 In balls in the rotunda in winter, and private U-ncractions ; 

 le in 1779, amounted to 1 1 59, in which year 1064 \vi 

 j admitted into the hofpital. From this it 

 icr child, is about ; 

 , repairs, &:c. 



thcfirit hofpital of the kind attempted in any j> 

 his rnajc; :,ions, an- 



obli iication was n. m 1747, by it-. 



doo, particularly do 

 and regulatif 



:! was eftabliflicd in Ijtjndon on the lame plan. 

 ! to the rmgiftrates he- 



;>lan, on the above mentioned be 



ii in a capital and ncighboui hood containing 100,000 in- 

 habitants. 



2 and 



