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breadth four, of well-wrought freeftone ; the roof of the fame 

 materials, after a curious manner ; hardly vifible for trees, 

 which have taken root in the very foundations. 



The reclory-houfe is about two miles lower down the river, 

 at Shipivq/h; fo called from its proximity to the (hipping in the 

 little harbour of Gambols, and the grounds warned .by the tides; 

 the fituation folitary, under a fhady hill ; the garden extending 

 to the river, croiled by a bridge of three arches ; a road leading 

 from it to Newcajlle ; the mother-church faid to have been for- 

 merly at this place. 



The laft rector was his Grace the prefent archbifliop ofTork,. 

 the honourable and right reverend Dr. Hay Drummond, brother to 

 the right honourable the Earl of Kinnoul, whofe progenitors were 

 ennobled by their glorious military atchievements, recorded in 

 the Scotch annals, and by a late ingenious antiquary of the fame 

 nation (s), 



A mile eafl from Sbipwafo, is 



(tj, which was one of the manours of the barony of 

 BothaU, and now belongs to George Sandiford Croiv, Efq. It Hands 

 on an eminence, well fheltered with tall foreft-trees ; a fine view 

 from it of the fea, alfo of Seaton-Detaval, and Bebfide, through the 

 openings of the plantations ; the grounds floping regularly to a 

 bank of oaks by the river Wansbeck, freeftone rocks confpicuous 

 through them, under which is a fine grafs-area of a mile in 



(s) Gordon's Itin. Sept. 



(t) Efhendcn. 

 Afhington. 



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