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ble pillar, and admirably placed. I feated my- 

 felf on the oppofite rock, and indulged the 

 emotions which with a melancholy not un- 

 pleafing filled my bofom, while I reflected on 

 the confequences that had fprung from the 

 victory here obtained. Liberty was then tri- 

 umphant. May the virtues of our pofterity 

 fecure that prize which the bravery of their 

 anceftors won ! Peace to the memory of the 

 Prince to whom, whatever might be his fail- 

 ings, we owed that day memorable in the an- 

 nals of Europe ! 



Returned part of the way, and took the road 

 toCullen, where the Lord Chief Baron For- 

 mer received me in the molt obliging manner, 

 and gave me a variety of information uncom- 

 monly valuable. He has made the greateft 

 improvements I have any where met with. 

 The whole country 22 years ago was a wafte 

 fheep walk, covered chiefly with heath, with 

 fome dwarf furz and fern. The cabbins and 

 people as mi fer able as can be conceived; not 

 a proteltant in the country, nor a road pafTa- 

 ble for a carriage. In a word, perfectly re- 

 iemblirig other mountainous tracts, and the 

 whole yielding a rent of not more than from 

 3s. to 4s. an acre. Mr. Forfter could not bear 

 $0 barren a property, and determined to at- 

 tempt the improvement of an eflate of 5000 

 acres till then deemed irreclaimable. He en- 

 couraged the tenants by every fpecies of per- 

 fuafion and expenfe, but they had fo ill an 

 opinion of the land that he was forced to be- 

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