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bufinefs would be undone; for my own part, I do not think it 

 any objedion to either of our fcliemes; nay, our plans confider* 

 cd ierioufly, are nearly alike. I fuggefted, rather I believe in the 

 form of a query than otherwife, the propriety of bringing fi(h 

 where I klPiow a demand exifts; but that gentleman oppofes 

 my fuggeftion with the above queftion, and then propofes a 

 plan on a fimiiar, but more comprehenfive fcale ! Allow me 

 merely to correct at prelent one more error A. L. has, unin- 

 tentionallj/, 1 am certain, committed in the laft paragraph of 

 his vindication of the Arbroath fiftiers (of whofe methods, and 

 "probable wade, I hope foon to obtain a correSt account,) 

 It is not the cafe even for the moft part in every large fiftiing 

 town, that the fiQiermen " retain the bodies of the crabs, 

 and fell the large claws only. A lift of fome of the towns in 

 whici) that cuftom prevails, would, doubtlefs oblige many of 

 your readers. If I am correal in my opinion of A. L. all his 

 attempts are i'or the fpread of ufeful knowledge; his candouc 

 will fuggeft the propriety of viewing mine alfo in a favour- 

 able light. 



I am. Sir, 



Your's and A. L's, 



Friend and Servant, 

 AN ENQOIRER. 



Notice of a Publication of Importance intended by the Literary 

 and Antiquarian Society of Perth. 

 SIR, 

 IT is with great pleafure I' inform you that the very re- 

 fpedable Literary and Antiquarian Society of Perth, intend 

 giving a feledion of their valuable papers to the public ; it is 

 much to be lamented that they have delayed doing this fo 

 long, as many of their manufcripts throw a very extenfive 

 light on the antiquities of that part of the ifland. 



I am. Sir, 



Your's truly, 



K. I.. 



To Mr. Nicholfon, 



Neivcaftle-?ipo7i~Tynei Jan,28, I80S. 



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