136 NORTHERN MEMOIRS. 



Doris, stark love and kindness, a custom invio- 

 lable. Here also resided jovial Bille Sincleer. 



Now, you are to consider, that this pittiful 

 pedling corporation of Dumblain, has little or 

 no trade amongst them, except now and then a 

 truck with a brandy-man, a tobacco-merchant, 

 or a brewster-wife ; for ale, tobacco, and strong 

 waters, are the staple of the town : And so let 

 us leave them, to pursue our intended design 

 for Minever, and Dromon- Castle, that stands dis- 

 tant about some three miles from the Bridg of 

 Ardoh ; where there runs a small rivulet of a 

 rapid motion, paved with a slaty bottom, but 

 the access difficult. 



And here we cross the moor to Mockeny, 

 whose limpid streams are pleasant beyond re- 

 port, and her fords generally furnished with 

 trout, as if nature had there designed to enter- 

 tain the contemplative angler, in those liberal 

 streams, where the artist in a storm may shelter 

 himself under shady trees, elevated upon lofty 

 mountains, over the melting amorous smiling 

 banks; as if the boughs were barnicles, and ready 

 to drop into the silent glittering streams, that 

 glide softly along a delightful meadow ; except- 

 ing here and there some small cataracts of water 

 that tumble down a precipice of rocks, that en- 

 circles and surrounds great stones in the sandy 



