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Englishman. If this was owing to the dislike in 

 which Franck's countrymen were held at that 

 time in the land, which they kept in subjection, 

 the circumstance makes his candour the more re- 

 markable, and every Scotchman must look with 

 some favour on an author, who, so circumstanced, 

 could have described Caledonia as " a legible fair 

 draught of the beautiful creation, dressed up with 

 polished rocks, pleasant savannas, flourishing dales, 

 deep and torpid lakes, with shady woods, immerged 

 with rivers and gliding rivulets, where every foun- 

 tain overflows a valley, and (which is especially to 

 the author's purpose) every ford superabounds with 

 fish." 



It only remains to say, that a young friend ha- 

 ving undertaken the present edition of a rare work, 

 (of which only a limited number of copies has been 

 printed,) these remarks, and a few trivial notes, 

 were contributed by one who may subscribe him- 

 self with John Richards, in his Recommendatory 

 Poem : 



No FISHER, 



BUT A WELL-WISHER 



To THE GAME. 



EDINBURGH, January 3, 1821. 



