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general vogue of a town serves as well : how- 

 ever it's a corporation, and that's enough ; and 

 I'm convinced it stands in a cultivated country, 

 that never knew the force of sterrility ; whose 

 banks are bathed with the glittering streams of 

 Dee, and her walls shaded with fertil corn fields, 

 promulgates plenty ; for heaven, by the law of 

 generosity, certainly has bless'd her : for here the 

 sun so moderates the cold in winter, that it sel- 

 dom or rarely freezes her sands ; whose increase 

 is multiplied from the generous breasts of the 

 ocean. And from whence both mariner and mer- 

 chant accumulate treasure, because to drag it 

 forth from the solid deeps of the sea ; when at 

 other times they import their goods into the 

 Highlands, as they export commodities into re- 

 mote countries. 



Theoph. But the harbour, I fancy, that's some- 

 what too strait ; and the entrance, as I conceive, 

 much too narrow ; however it's examined secure 

 enough. 



Arn. Peradventure it is ; yet these rocks at 

 the entrance terrify the pilot, as her harbour, 

 when entred, exhilarates the passenger. Now 

 the buildings of this city are framed with stone 

 and timber ; facing the sun, and fronting this 

 pleasant harbour : the streets also are large and 

 spacious, and the walls strengthned with towers 

 and buttresses of stone. So that nothing in my 







