250 NORTHERN MEMOIRS. 



is serene, and the birds you may see them beat 

 the ambient air with their tunable notes ! Come, 

 Theophilus, let us mount our horses, and lift up 

 your eyes to behold those lofty imbellishments 

 of Edinburgh. 



Theoph. They are obvious enough, half an 

 eye may see them. 



Arn. Welcome to these elevated ports, the 

 princely court of famous Edinburgh. This city 

 stands upon a mighty scopulous mountain, 

 whose foundations are cemented with mortar 

 and stone ; where the bulk of her lofty build- 

 ings represent it a rock at a reasonable distance, 

 fronting the approaching sun ; whose elevations 

 are seven or eight stories high, mounted aloft 

 in the ambient air. But the length, as I take 

 it, exceeds not one mile, and the breadth on't 

 measures little more than half a mile ; nor is 

 there more than one fair street, to my best re- 

 membrance. But then it's large and long, and 

 very spacious, whose ports are splendid, so are 

 her well-built houses and palaces, corresponding 

 very much to compleat it their metropolis. 



Theoph. What fabrick is that on the east of 

 Edinburgh ? 



Arn. Hallirood- House, the regal court of 

 Scotland. 



Theoph. But there's yet another great fabrick, 

 that presents westward. 



