A 



DEDICATION 



TO THE 



Academicks in Cambridge the place of my 

 Nativity. 



GENTLEMEN, 



I PRESENT you with a fair opportunity to 

 travel Scotland, and stay at home : but then 

 you'l lose the benefit of tracing those north- 

 ern tracts, where you may pick up admira- 

 ble curiosities in every angle, because na- 

 turally replenished with great variety. But 

 not that I commend the country to flatter 

 her inhabitants, nor intend I to exceed in 

 my method and stile, when only to describe 

 her cities and citadels, towns and castles, 



<Scc. For that end expect an impartial ac- 



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