108 NORTHERN MEMOIRS. 



so that should the residue of their cities, in our 

 northern progress, seem as barren as uncultiva- 

 ted fields, and every field so replenished with 

 thistles that a flower could scarcely flourish 

 amongst them, yet would I celebrate thy praise, 

 O, Glasgow ! because of those pleasant and fra- 

 grant flowers that so sweetly refreshed me, and, 

 to admiration, sweetned our present enterments. 

 Arn. Now the day-star springs, and the fla- 

 ming steeds of the sun invite our departure. 

 The smiles of the weather prognosticate we 

 shall reach Dumbarton in very good time, 

 where we may redress and refit such tackle as 

 shall serve to accommodate both our art and ex- 

 ercise; for near to those famous and flourish- 

 ing ports there glides a rapid and peremptory 

 river, that gulphs forth of the bowels of Loe- 

 mon, replenished with trout, and, beyond all 

 measure, of incomparable salmon, (if I calculate 

 right) where we may sport to-day, and to-mor- 

 row too, provided the season serve to our pur- 

 pose. So from thence we may pass into the 

 fields of Luss, (by fording the Loemon) where, 

 beyond dispute, we shall gratify ourselves with 

 such solitary entertainments as the angler most 

 delights in ; so from thence, by crossing the 

 Loemon eastward, we arrive in the steril fields 

 of Bohanan, a situation, by some, thought al- 



