visit Dunrobin, and the small town of Tain in 

 Ross-shire ; Cromarty is also visited, and the tra- 

 vellers return by Castle Gordon, Aberdeen, and 

 the coast-road which traverses Stonehaven, Mon- 

 trose, Dundee, Bruntisland, to Edinburgh. From 

 Edinburgh the pilgrims return to England by 

 Dunbar and Berwick ; and, finally, repose at Not- 

 tingham, where, as we observed, the author seems 

 at one time to have had his ordinary residence. 



The sketch of such a tour, made during the se- 

 venteenth century, promises, it must be allowed, 

 a great deal more curiosity and interest than the 

 reader will receive from the actual perusal. The 

 rage of fine writing had unfortunately seized on 

 Richard Franck, Philanthropes, with inveteracy 

 unparalleled, unless perhaps in the case of Sir 

 Thomas Urquhart of Cromerty ; and instead of 

 acquainting us with what actually befel him, like 

 a man of this world, he generally renders himself 

 obscure, and sometimes altogether unintelligible, by 

 his affected pedantry and obscurity. Probably no 

 reader, while he reads the disparaging passages in 

 which the venerable Isaac Walton is introduced, 

 can forbear wishing that the good old man, who 



