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MEMORIALS OF RAY : 



the rock, and a flower out of the garden thereby. The 

 island is nought else but a rock, and stands off" the land 

 near a mile ; at Dunbar you would not guess it above a 

 mile distant, though it be thence at least five. We found 

 growing in the island, in great plenty. Beta marina, 

 \_Beta maritima^ Linn. ;] Lychnis marina nostras, \Silene 

 maritima, With. ;~\ Malva arbor ea marina nostras, [Lava- 

 tera arbor ea. Linn. ;] and tJochlearia rotimdifolia, \_Coch- 

 learia officinalis, Linn.] By the way also we saw 

 glasses made of kelp and sand mixed together, and 

 calcined in an oven. The crucibles which contained the 

 melted glass, they told us, were made of tobacco-pipe 

 clay. 



At Leith we saw one of those citadels built by the 

 Protector, one of the best fortifications that ever we 

 beheld, passing fair and sumptuous. There are three 

 forts advanced above the rest and two platforms. The 

 works round about are faced with freestone towards the 

 ditch, and are almost as high as the highest buildings 

 within, and withal thick and substantial. Below are 

 very pleasant, convenient, and well-built houses for the 

 governor, officers, and soldiers, and for magazines and 

 stores ; there is also a good capacious chapel, the piazza, 

 or void space within, as large as Trinity College (in Cam- 

 bridge) great court. This is one of the four forts. The 

 other three are at St. Johnston's, Inverness, and x4.yre. 

 The building of each of which (as we were credibly in- 

 formed) cost above 100,000/. sterling; indeed, I do not 

 see how it could cost less. In England it would have 

 cost much more. 



At Edinburgh we went to the principal pablic build- 

 ings ; those are, 1 . The castle, a very strong building on 

 a precipitous solid rock ; it is one of the king's houses, 

 but of no very great receipt ; in it are kept the crown 

 and sceptre of Scotland. There was then lying in the 

 castle yard an old great iron gun, which they call Mount's 

 Meg, and some, Meg of Berwick, of a great bore, but the 

 length is not answerable to the bigness. 2. Heriot's 



