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what character more eminent for these sweet si- 

 tuations, than the Rosy Mount of our northern 

 latitude ? Nay, what expressions could be add- 

 ed more compendiously significant to charac- 

 terize the beautiful elevations and imbellish- 

 ments of Montrose, I know not : then let this 

 short derivation answer all objections ; whilst we 

 enter her ports, and use arguments of refresh- 

 ment to our hostile appetites, in regard so fa- 

 mous a river as the famous Ask salutes her banks 

 and flourishing shores with daily supplies, to 

 relieve her inhabitants, and accommodate stran- 

 gers. 



Arn. Now our next advance is to the town 

 of Dundee : but give me leave to call it deplo- 

 rable Dundee, and not to be exprest without a 

 deluge of tears ; because storm'd and spoil'd by 

 the rash precipitancy of mercenaries, whose ra- 

 pinous hands put a fatal period to her stately 

 imbellishments, with the loss of many innocent 

 lives, altogether unconcern'd in that unnatural 

 controversy. 



Ah, poor Dundee ! torn up by the roots ; and 

 thy natives and inhabitants pick'd out at the 

 port-holes. Can honour shine in such bloody 

 sacrifices, to lick up the lives of inhabitants, as 

 if by a studied revenge ? Can nothing sweeten 

 the conquerour's sword, but the reeking blood of 

 orphans and innocents ? Blush, O heavens, what 



