586 SHORT TOUR OF SCOTLAND. 



is denied firv in winter, \\ fummer, and the 



C of God all the v* ar. 



; the I, 



The lower of the 



and hath .1 near view of the oppofu- 

 . 



in b< rtility is little infen 



ern fnorc . f the 



richeil views in Great Britain, and is coniequcntly 

 preferred by all thole who tr.> ; health oramuie- 

 inent. It is in of the G' 



(loping fu. v where co\ 



with rich iiclds of wheat, clover, or thriving plan- 

 ins. 



Within a few miles of Perth, thefe hills begin to 

 clofe upon the river; the terrified ft ranger finds him- 

 K If environed by lofty impending precipices, cloath- 

 ed however to a confiderable height, with natural 

 woods ; a fpecimen of the rude magnificence fo fre- 

 quent in the Highlands, which are now at no great 

 diftance. 



rth ftands upon the weft fide of the Tay ; it 

 confifts chiefly of two handfome ftrcets ; is, upon 

 the whole, an elegant town, and admits of great im- 

 provement. Its .valhs on the banks of the 

 Tay, the oppofite hills covered with rifing planta- 

 tions, the handfome bridge, from whence there is a 

 view of an extenfive plain bounded by diftant moun- 

 tains, compofe a juftly admired landicape. 



But no traveller, who is not in a deep decline, 

 fhould leave this place, until he hath afrendtd the 

 hill of Moncrief ; where, having gained the fum- 

 mit, his labour will be amply repaid. Vain \v 

 be tii ipt of the mod fertile imagination, to 



difplay, by defc ription, the fcenery which that hill 

 nands. The foil, and the rude touches ot 

 are fo finely blended, that the eye alone can 

 e them. 



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