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merchants, now in building. — 4. A very long bridge of 

 eight arches, four whereof are about fifty feet wide each : 

 and a very neat square fiesh-market, scarce such a one to 

 be seen in England or Scotland. 



August the 23d, we rode to Douglas, twenty miles. 

 We passed through Hamilton, by the way, an handsome 

 little market-town, where is a great house of Duke 

 Hamilton's. The country all thereabout is very pleasant, 

 and in all respects, for woods, pastures, corn, &c., the 

 best we saw in Scotland. At Douglas there is a castle 

 belonging to the Marquess Douglas, half a mile distant 

 from the town ; which, though it be a free bm^gh, and 

 without doubt of great antiquity, yet is a pitiful, poor, 

 small place, scarce an house in it that will keep a man dry 

 in a shower of rain. In the church we saw some old 

 monuments of the Douglasses, with two hearts wrapped 

 up in lead, which, it seems, were of two of that family 

 that died in France, and were sent over hither. 



August the 24th, we rode to Dumfries, or (as they 

 spelled it) Drumfrese, twenty-eight miles, and in the way 

 saw lead mines, at a place called the Lead Hills, which 

 will in time, it is likely, increase to a good considerable 

 town. We also passed over much hilly ground ; the 

 highest place was called Anderkin Hill, upon the top 

 whereof - the air was sharp and piercing, when in the level 

 it was warm and gentle ; neither yet were we on the 

 highest apex of it, by the ascent of near half a mile as 

 we guessed. This hill we judged to be higher than any 

 we had been upon in England or Wales, Snowdon itself 

 not excepted. This is a dangerous passage in winter 

 time, the way being narrow and slippery, and a great 

 precipice on the one hand, besides the descent steep, so 

 that we led our horses down about a mile. At Dumfries 

 they have two ministers, one a young man named 

 Campbell, related (as we were told) to the M. of Argyle, 

 the other an elder man, by name Henderson, who has 

 married his daughter to the younger. Campbell prayed 

 for the preservation of their church government and 



