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MEMORIALS OF RAY : 



cloaks. It is the fashion of them to wear cloaks when 

 they go abroad, but especially on Sundays. They lay out 

 most they are worth in cloaths, and a fellow that hath 

 scarce ten groats besides to help himself with, you shall 

 see come out of his smoaky cottage clad like a gentle- 

 man. 



There hath formerly been a strong castle at Dunbar, 

 built on a rock upon the sea, but it is now quite ruined 

 and fallen down. Yearly, about this time, there is a 

 great confluence of people at Dunbar to the herring 

 fishing ; they told us, sometimes to the number of 20,000 

 persons ; but we did not see how so small a town could 

 contain, indeed give shelter to such a multitude. They 

 had at our being there two ministers in Dunbar ; they 

 sung their gloria patri at the end of the psalm after 

 sermon, as had been ordered by the parliament, in these 

 words : 



" Glore to the Pather and the Soiine, 

 And to the Holy Gheast : 

 As it was in the beginning. 

 Is now, and aye doth last." 



There is in the church a very fair monument of the Earl 

 of Dunbar, George Howme, made in King James's time. 



August the 19th, we went to Leith, keeping all along 

 on the side of the Pryth. By the way we viewed Ton- 

 tallon Castle, and passed over to the Basse Island, where 

 we saw on the rocks innumerable of the soland geese,* 

 [the gannet, Bula alba, should be written solent goose, 

 i. e. a channel goose.] The old ones are all over white, 

 excepting the pinion or hard feathers of their wings, 

 which are black. The upper part of the head and neck, 

 in those that are old is of a yellowish dun colour ; they 

 lay but one egg apiece, which is white and not very large. 

 They are very bold, and sit in great multitudes till one 



* " In Scotia anafcum, sen anserum genus, bernacles, ex conchis aut 

 arboribus vulgo nasci perbibetur." Ex Everardi Ottonis Notitid pr^Bcipuarum 

 Europcs Rermipuh. Cap. iv, sect, i, p. 297. This name of bernacles, as 

 applied to the soland goose, explains what Cleaveland, in his satyi- upon the 

 Scotch, means by feeding on bernacles. 



