584 SI TOUR OF SCOTLAND. 



.illurcments of this city will be irrc- 

 fiftil 



Of the harbour of Lcith, though lying upon the 

 capacious river Forth, little can be . its fa- 



vour. In appearance and i. >ns, it r< 



the tower-ditch at London, and hath only 9 feet 

 water at neap-tides, and 16 in high-fp cs. 



Were the funds of the city adequate 

 pence, fcveral feet water might h 

 and t ible of containing 100 



fail of (hips, and of not exc< 



ing 12 fcit water, conftantlv . . The (hipping 

 of the port of Edinburgh, is calculated at 10,000 

 tons ; that of London, ioo,oor 



. g to Lei;h, are the London 

 traders, who make 7 trips every 2 years at a me- 

 diu: 



I: i> fuppofcd that the balance in favour of I^on- 

 don, and other parts of England, with the Forth, 

 i buildings, and population in 

 burgh, amounts to half a million annually. 



diftance. from Edinburgh to Perth is AO 

 miles, ali i.o ft due north. The lirft object that pre- 

 fents itfelf is the river Forth, which may be crofled 

 at Leith, where it is near 6 miles over, or ar 



n's-fmy, 9 miles above, where the pafiage is 

 !ian two miles. Both of thefe roads unite at 

 Kinrofs, a pleafant town on the banks of Loch 

 i, a lake of twelve miles in circumference, or- 

 namented with woody iflands, on one of which, the 

 unfortunate Mary queen of Scots was imprifonedby 

 her fubjecls. Thus far the country is very fine, 

 and well improved; confifting of gentle rifings, and 

 rich crops of grain, but without thofe hedge-rows, 

 interlined with trees, which ornament the plains of 

 the fouth. 



From Kinrofs, the country a flumes a mountainous 

 appearance, very proper for fheep, but injtidicioufly 

 cut up, in many parts, for the raifing of (lender 



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