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ly kept, after the best methods of the Scotish 

 mode. But how Montrose will represent unto 

 us, that I suspend to determine till farther ex- 

 amination. 



Am. Trouble not your self with that affair, 

 for Montrose will murder all your suspicions. 

 Her generous entertainments in every angle, 

 like radiated beams of the sun that invigorate 

 the earth, so naturally do the inhabitants influ- 

 ence their civilities amongst strangers ; which 

 remonstrates Montrose a beauty that lies con- 

 eeal'd, as it were, in the bosom of Scotland ; most 

 delicately drest up, and adorn'd with excellent 

 buildings, whose foundations are laid with po- 

 lish'd stone, and her ports all wash'd with the 

 silver streams that trickle down from the famous 

 Ask. This is Montrose in the county of Angus, 

 antiently known by the name of Caelurcha. Tell 

 me how you like it, whose gaity and gallantry 

 springs from the nobility and gentry ; but the 

 wealth of the city, from her merchants and ma- 

 nufacture : and though you see not her harbours 

 deck'd with delicate shipping, yet she contents 

 herself with a pleasant river, that commodes the 

 inhabitant with the blessings of plenty, and that's 

 enough. So to sum up all in a compendious 

 narrative, we intitle Montrose the Mount of 

 Hoses. 



Theoph. What encomium more elegant, or 





