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the weft, through Carlifle. The firft (Ugc from 

 ( cs gra.i ition 



and affords, at the dillan 

 (buthward, a moft extcnfivc view of the 1 orth, 

 the Lothians, and t ; . 'ppcd 



;nt moi 



11 Her takes a the nor- 



thern C.ilrdoni.i ; and having p ( aarrow ridge 



of h from 



miles through a paftoral 



coun- iant downs, rural Itrcaim, and 



long winding folitary vales *. 



11 have fuf- 



C to contemplate the wor/:s of God, as 



;g been exhibited to his view, in a boundlcfs 



: ins and appearances, and all defined 



for valuable purpofes, which it is the bufmcls of 



i prove. This %vill br: 



been done, and wl. :o be 



done; the vatl tracts of co tc of nature; 



nany th< of iober, wcll-difpofed people, 



who are ther t-s, their families and 



the (late. He will percen lie kingdom through 



which he hath mds, 



is a great Jifinem- 



bcred empire, in llrength, in commerce, and national 



confequence, whenever gove- ihall be difpofed 



.11 forth and improve thefc important fources. 



Of tbc Famine j the Failure of the Fijbcries ; and tbt 

 Hurricanes of 17 b 



is engaged in the preceding pages, an 

 event of the moft calamitous nature, bcfel the inhof- 

 pitable regions which I had be :bing. The 



year 1782 proved \ bly cold and wet, the 



crops over great part of Luropc were more or lcf$ 



Thr proerty of the duke of Bucclcugh, a nobleman equally 

 or his public and private vmua. 



injured, 



