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preserved my Agility & Vigor beyond many I see Younger 

 & of better Constitution than myself. Col. Gardiner since 

 he is growing rich & Lazy is y® most alterd man I have 

 seen in so short a time, he stoops, pockes out his head, and 

 has y^ appearance of a Very Old Man. 



I am sorry I can't have y*^ happinefs to be in an old 

 Corps for I am terribly afFraid of a reduction ; I think verily 

 this War is too Expensive to laft long, if there is no better 

 Economic of y"^ publique mony than there is here. You 

 Gentlemen who pay so largely to support y^' State must 

 soon grow weary of it. They are making a peice of road 

 here to pleafe one Great Man that he may drive eafily to his 

 houfe (when he gets one) tis about 40 miles where there is 

 to be 17 bridges one will cost 2 or 3000£ thro' a country all 

 rock & Bogg, where nobody will ever have occalion to pafs 

 but he himfelf & that perhaps but once more in his life if he 

 does that. The roads y* are made allready by M^ Wade 

 are very good of themselfs especially to y° man he has 

 appointed to look after them, but of very little ufe to y® 

 publique for theres neither lodging meat or drink or horses 

 or Carriages to be got on them. I have lately pafsd 4 times 

 thro' thefe West highlands where there is no road or hardly 

 track but yS mountains stand all round like a parcel of sugar 

 loaves on a grocers counter, where I got nothing to Eate or 

 drink but what I carried w*^ me, and at night no bed to lye 

 on. Your Grace may well call this a curfed Country ; and 

 I muft beg leave to Anathemize the animals bred in it, for 

 the Tartars themfelfs are not half so Savage as y® common 

 highlanders. The Gentry are so proud & National there is no 

 conversing with them, they are at home quite different from 

 what you see them about y° Court. To give You a small 



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