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turrets of Dumbarton ; near unto those famous 

 elevations she mingles her streams with the pro- 

 found depths of the ocean, and is the author of 

 Cloyd's Dale. 



Now all these spacious and peremptory ri- 

 vers, are derived from the springs in the moun- 

 tain of Errick ; but some alledg from Tin taw, 

 on whose top stands a capsula, on the front of 

 the hill directing southward ; from whence those 

 smaller streams separate themselves, through 

 craggy passages and cavities in rocks ; so trick- 

 ling down, they sprinkle the moorish meadows, 

 admitting of many other small rills and rivulets 

 to mingle with them, in their more resolute 

 passage. 



Theoph. What have you there ? 



Am. An aenigma of the famous Tintaw ; 

 which with much difficulty I procured from the 

 collections of a Scots antiquary, that lived some- 

 time in the town of Kilsieth ; who to answer my 

 solicitations concerning Tintaw, gave me, as you 

 may read, this following paradox. 



On Tintaw top thar dwells a mist ; 



And e'en that mist thar is a kist. 

 Spere in that mist, thar stands a cop, 



And e'en that cop thar is a drop. 

 Take up the cop, drink oot the drop ; 



Than put the kist intul the mist, 

 On Tintaw top. 



