

NORTHERN MEMOIRS. 249 



TJieoph. What merchandize doth she trade 

 in? 



Arn. For the most part she trades in foreign 

 commodities, except some manufactures of their 

 own, as ticking, bedding, tartan, pladding, Scots- 

 cloth, &c. So that Leith for trade, with her mer- 

 chandize for treasure, excels most, if not all the 

 maritime ports in Scotland. 



Tkeoph. Pray, what other accommodation hath 

 she? 



Arn. She has fish and flesh in abundance, viz. 

 oysters, cockles, muscles, crabs, craw-fish, lob- 

 sters, soles, plaice, turbet, thornback, cod, keel- 

 ing, haddock, mackrel, herring, &c. Then there's 

 salmon, trout, pike, perch, eel, &c. but their flesh 

 are beeves, veals, porks, veneson, kid, mutton, 

 lamb, &c. And their fowl are eagles, signets, 

 hawks, geese, gossander, duck and mallard, teal, 

 widgeon, cock, pidgeon, heath-game, moorfowl, 

 curlue, partridg, pheasant, plover, grey and 

 green* and many more that I cannot remember 

 So great is their plenty and variety, that did 

 not the popularity in Edinburgh render things 

 more chargeable than other parts more remote 

 up the country, a man might live almost with- 

 out expence. And now we relinquish the flou- 

 rishing ports of Leith, whose foundations are 

 daily saluted by the ocean. O, how sweetly the 

 weather smiles, the horizon looks clear, the sky 



