5 32 SHORT TOUR OF SCOTLAND. 



:':rcd, both for the < the archi- 



tect 1 'n.jrable i he 



'he hall w. :y, 



A i) lately i the 



Mt warlike 



the irtb of t! I Js, 



orn . ; in the proper enfigns oft ex- 



hibit annually at Edinburgh, before a numerous 



'ience. 



There -arc annual races on the lands of Leith, 

 every July, fora } < loogu: by his 



majefty ; a plate of 50 gu: , by the city of 



nburgh ; the noblemen an of 



100 guineas j the ladies fubtcriprion-purio j and 

 other prizes. The races laft a week, and are much 

 frequented from both kingdoms. 



About 300 nobility and gentry compofe the r< 

 company of archers, many of whom meet weekly 

 during the fummer, to train themfelves in that an- 



M .t exercife, wherein both Englifh and Scots < 

 celled, and for which they were lamed over Kurope. 

 They have an annual trial of fkill in public, on wl -, 

 occafion they are dreHed in tartan, lined with 

 white, trimmed with green and white ribbons ; a 

 white fafh, with green taMcls j and a blue bonnet, 

 with a St. Andrew's crofs. They have aik> 

 ftandards, whereon are dil played, Mars and Cupid ; 

 the motto, " /;; Peace and War." A yew tree, with 

 2 men dreffed and equipped as archers the mo; 

 Cf Dat gloria vires." The Scottifh arms the mot- 

 to, " Nemo me irr.fune laceffef." St. Andrew on the 

 crofs the motto, " Dulce fro f atria fericuii 



Tlie fight of the archers thus equipped, fhooting 

 fur the prize, is truly noble. 



The company of hunters, called the Caledonian 

 is alio compofed of nobility and gentry, who 

 in uniform at the ngsj they give an 



annual 



