A Tour Thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain: Divided Into Circuits Or Journies. Containing, I. A Description of the Principal Cities ... By a Gentleman

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D. Browne, T. Osborne, C. Hitch and L. Hawes, A. Millar, J. Buckland, J. Rivington, S. Crowder and Company W. Johnston, T. Longman, T. Lowdes, B. Law and Company T. Caslon, and G. Kearsly, 1761
 

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Pàgina 134 - tis the only city in Scotland, at this time, that apparently increases in both. The union has, indeed, answered its end to them, more than to any other part of the kingdom, their trade being new formed by it ; for as the union opened the door to the Scots into our American colonies, the Glasgow merchants presently embraced the opportunity ; and though, at its first concerting, the rabble of this city made a formidable attempt to prevent it, yet afterwards they knew better, when they found the great...
Pàgina 186 - Pretender and his affairs, though a little out of place ; when you see it at a distance it is so full of turrets and lofty buildings, spires and towers, some plain, others shining with gilded tops, that it looks not like a town, but a city...
Pàgina 124 - ... that it has been much larger than it is at prefent. It is now like an old Beauty, and fhews the Ruins of a good Face, but is ftill decaying every Day ; and from having been the fifth beft Town in Scotland, as the Townfmen fay, it is now the fifth worft ; which is owing to the Decay of its Trade : fo true it is, that Commerce is the Life of Cities, of Nations, and even of Kingdoms. What was the Reafon of the Decay of Trade in this Place, is not eafy to determine, the People themfelves being either...
Pàgina 137 - ... of Clyde, but they stretch away to the north-west, are out of the road of the privateers immediately, and are often at the capes of Virginia before the London ships get clear of the chanel. Nay, even in times of peace, there must always be allowed one time with another, at least fourteen or twenty days...
Pàgina 359 - On that day the castle was twice summoned to surrender, once in the morning, and again in the afternoon : but General Blakeney's answer was, That he had always been looked upon as a man of honour, and that the enemy should find he would die so.
Pàgina 130 - ... the four principal streets are the fairest for breadth, and the finest built that I have ever seen in one city together. The houses are all of stone, and generally uniform in height, as well as in front. The lower stories, for the most part, stand on vast square Doric columns, with arches, which open into the shops, adding to the strength, as well as beauty of the building. In a word, 'tis one of the cleanliest, most beautiful, and best built cities in Great Britain.
Pàgina 87 - Towers, fo that it is looked upon as impregnable. In the great Church they have a Set of Bells, which are not rung out as in England, (for that Way of ringing is not known in this Country) but are played on by the Hand...
Pàgina 206 - Stone, fprung from two Rocks, one on each Side, which ferve as a Butment to the Arch ; fo that it may be faid to have a Foundation coeval with Nature, and which will laft as long. The other Bridge is upon the River Dee, a Mile to the , Weft of New Aberdeen ; and has feven ftately Arches, as I have already mentioned.
Pàgina 361 - Men and the Dragoons to harrafs the Rebels in their Retreat. The Brigadier, with the Troops under his Command, arrived at Stirling late that Evening, where they: found the Rebels had abandoned their Camp, with all their Artillery, and had blown up a great Magazine they had of Powder and Ball in the Church of St. Ninian ; and that with fo little Care or Difcretion that feveral of the Country People were buried in the Ruins. They likewife left behind them * . • all...
Pàgina 311 - ... of Philofophical Obfervation, Nor is it lefs plain by the many antient Monuments remaining among them, and the Marks of the Plough reaching to the very Tops of the Mountains, (which the artlefs Inhabitants think incapable of Culture) that in remote Ages they were in a far more flourifhing Condition than at prefent. The Ruins of fpacious Houfes, and the numerous Obelifks, old Forts, Temples, Altars, &c. undeniably prove this ; befides that the Country was formerly full of Woods, as appears by...

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