NORTHERN MEMOIRS. 



as eminently discours'd for a stately palace, as 

 Elgin is admired for a sumptuous cathedral. 



Theoph. Are these those savannas so enrich'd 

 with rivulets, and every rivulet stock'd with 

 trout ? Do these purling streams proclaim a 

 plenty, and does not every shore shine with sil- 

 ver sands, whilst the craggy cliffs stand burden'd 

 with trees ? 



Am. It answers your description ; as the tower 

 of Straboggy seems impregnable, yet Marquess 

 Argile once earth'd so deep in't, that all the clan 

 of the Gordons could not undermine him, not- 

 withstanding their popularity, and residence 

 about it. 



Theoph. What caused the difference, could 

 not the law reconcile them ? 



Am. No, nor the gospel neither ; if when to 

 consider their difference in opinion, for the Gor- 

 dons, you must know, are profest Roman-catho- 

 lics ; and Scotland, nay all the world, knows that 

 the Campbels are Presbyterians. Now the first 

 won't live without a universal bishop, and the 

 last can't live without a parochial priest ; what 

 think you now, are they like to agree ? 



Theoph. No, I think not, if they hold to the 

 point. 



Am. Let the point be what it will, these are 

 the stately turrets of Straboggy, where I fancy 



