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hides, tallow, skins, and various other small ma- 

 nufactures and commodities, not comprehended 

 in this breviat. Besides, I should remind you, 

 that they generally exceed in good French wines, 

 as they naturally superabound with fish and 

 fowl ; some meat does well with their drink. 

 And so give me leave to finish my discourse of 

 this famous Glasgow, whose ports we relinquish 

 to distinguish those entertainments of Dumbar- 

 ton, always provided we scatter no corn. 



Theoph. What to think, or what to say of 

 this eminent Glasgow, I know not, except to 

 fancy a smell of my native country. The very 

 prospect of this flourishing city reminds me of 

 the beautiful fabricks and the florid fields in 

 England, so that now I begin to expect a plea- 

 sant journey. Pray, tell me, Arnold us, how 

 many such cities shall we meet with in our tra- 

 vels, where the streets and the channels are so 

 cleanly swept, and the meat in every house so 

 artificially drest ? The linen, I also observed, 

 was very neatly lap'd up, and, to their praise be 

 it spoke, was lavender proof; besides, the peo- 

 ple were decently drest, and such an exact de- 

 corum in every society, represents it, to my ap- 

 prehension, an emblem of England, though, in 

 some measure, under a deeper die. However, 

 He superscribe it the nonsuch of Scotland, 

 where an English florist may pick up a posie ; 



