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count from a candid and (I would, if per- 

 mitted, say) a regular pen, that neither pro- 

 fits nor loses by imbellishing or demolish- 

 ing either her towns, cities, forts, or fortifi- 

 cations. 



But the longer I comment upon this 

 northern subject, the more arguments I 

 bring to convince the incredulous, that Scot- 

 land's national stores, and commodious ma- 

 ritime ports, will treat you with good accom- 

 modation and civil entertainment. Nor do 

 I seem to contradict my self, when modest- 

 ly concluding every impartial examinant 

 under the perswasion of my opinion : nor 

 doubt I to convince him, that shall hereaf- 

 ter trace her delightful shores, and observe 

 the various and distinct classes of her num- 

 berless numbers of fish and fowl, her lofty 

 and domineering mountains, and mountain- 

 ous ascents burdned with firs, her pleasant 

 and fertil fields fill'd with corn, and her 

 meadows and pastures crowded with herds 

 of cattle, but that he will conclude with me, 

 that her cities and sea-ports flourish under 

 the conduct of trade and navigation. And 

 where the gilded Highlands are the Low- 



