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tion, but by argument of force (not of artillery) 

 which forced her by graduate means, till arri- 

 ving in this Ness, obvious to all men. 



And this is that famous and renowned Lough 

 Ness (Loemon excepted) inferiour to none in 

 the kingdom of Scotland ; whose streams are 

 strewed with eel and trout, whilst her deeps are 

 saluted with the race of salmon ; whose fertil 

 banks and shining sands are hourly moistned 

 by this small Mediterrane : which I fancy is be- 

 sieged with rocks and mountains ; whilst her po- 

 lite shores are frozen in the winter, by the frigid 

 lungs of blustring Boreas, that perplexes her 

 banks, and masquerades her rocks with a cris- 

 talline hue of polished ice. Where the Tritons 

 and Sea-nymphs sport themselves on the slippery 

 waves, sounding an invasion to her moveable 

 inmate ; supposed by some, the floating island. 



Tlieopli. Do these fair mountains that inter- 

 dict the dales, survey the forcible streams of In- 

 verness ? 



Am. Yes surely, these torrents, which you 

 now discover, frequently wash the walls of In- 

 verness, (a derivative from Lough Ness), at the 

 west end whereof stands a diminutive castle, 

 about a mile distant from that magnificent ci- 

 tadel, that subjects those precarious Northern 

 Highlanders. This Inverness, or model of anti- 

 quity, (which we now discourse,) stands com- 



