74 NORTHERN MEMOIRS. 



Am. That's but little difficult to do, where 

 every field is accommodated with rivulets, and 

 every rivulet furnished with trouts, as we travel 

 along this mountainous coast of Galloway. Look 

 but before you, and view those ports ; such are 

 the entrances into the decays of Dumfreez, whose 

 situation and buildings bespeak it spacious, and 

 a town that will furnish us with fish and flesh ; 

 where we may stay till to morrow, and solace 

 our selves with her flourishing streams ; whose 

 lofty banks barrocade the beautiful Pontus Ar- 

 notus, a pleasant portable river below the situa- 

 tion of the town (unplundered of exercise) that 

 will recreate and recruit us with fish enough, if 

 the season but serve to experiment the art. 



TheopJi. I approve very well of your motion, 

 but a modicum first will be very seasonable. 

 Let us summons the cook to know what he's 

 got in the kitchin ; and give charge to the 

 chambermaid, (if there be such a thing in Scot- 

 land,) to take care that the windows be deck'd 

 and adorn'd with flowers, whilst the boards and 

 floors are strewed with greens ; for I'll examine 

 every thread in our beds, to see if they be clean- 

 ly wash'd, and throughly dried, the better to 

 accommodate us in our northern expedition. 



Am. Do so ; and I resolve in the morning to 

 examine your breviate of the various particulars 

 of this night's entertainment, how you approv'd 



