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nefs content with its own reward: with a found judgement and honest heart you worthily discharge the senatorial truft repofed in you, whose unprejudiced vote aids to ftill the madness of the People, or aims to check the prefumption of the Minister. My happiness in being from your earlieft life your neighbor, makes me confident in my observation; your increafing and difcerning band of friends difcovers and confirms the juftice of it may the reasons that attract and bind us to you ever remain, is the most gratefull wish that can be thought of, by,

DEAR SIR,

Your obliged and

affectionate Friend,

DOWNING,

Cherzo, 1771.

Thomas Pennant.

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IDER Drake and Duck,

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II. Dunkeld Cathedral,

III. Cascade near Taymouth,

IV. View from the King's Seat near Blair,

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XII. Arthur's Oven, and two Lochaber Axes,

XIII. Pillars in Penrith Church-Yard,

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XVI. Hen of the Wood. Ptarmigan,

XVII. Saury. Greater Weever,

XVIII. Thorney Crab. Cordated Crab.

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Page 234. A View of the gigantic Yew-Tree in Fortingal Church-Yard. The middle part is now decayed to the ground; but within memory was united to the height of three feet: Captain Campbell of Glen-Lion having affured me that when a boy he has often climbed over, or rode on the then connecting part.

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I find by Monteith that the cathedral of Elgin was founded A. D. 1204 by Andrew Bishop of Murray, and that Innes only built great part of the fteeple, to which the words hoc notabile opus allude. Vide Monteith's Theatre of Mortality, 214, 219.

282, lines 14, 15, dele" is certainly a moft authentic reprefentation of them;" and infert "were not done under my own eye, nor can my memory enable me to fay whether thefe, or the drawing in poffeffion of the Antiquarian Society, have the ftrongest resemblance."

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N Monday the 26th of JUNE take my depar- CHETI ture from CHESTER, a city without parallel

for the fingular structure of the four princi pal streets, which are as if excavated out of the earth, and funk many feet beneath the surface; the carriages drive far beneath the level of the kitchens, on a line with ranges of fhops, over which on each fide of the streets paffengers walk from end to end, in covered galleries, fecure from wet or heat. The back courts of all thefe houfes are level with the ground, but to go into any of these four streets it is neceffary to defcend a flight of feveral fteps.

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The Cathedral is an antient structure, very ragged on the outfide, from the nature of the red friable ftone with which it is built: the tabernacle work in the choir is very neat; but the beauty, and elegant fimplicity of a very antique gothic chapter-house, is what merits a vifit from every traveller.

The Hypocauft near the Feathers Inn, is one of the remains of the Romans +, it being well known that this place was a principal ftation. Among

Saxum arenarium friabile rubrum Da Cofta foils. I. 139. This city was the Deva and Devanu of Antonine, and the station of the Legio vicefima vi&trix.

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many antiquities found here, none is more fugular than the rude fculpture of the Dea Armigera Minerva, with her bird and her altar, on the face of a rock in a small field near the Welch end of the bridge.

The castle is a decaying pile. The walls of the city, the only complete fpecimens of antient fortifications, are kept in excellent order, being the principal walk of the inhabitants; the views from the several parts are very fine; the mountains of Flintshire, the hills of Broxton, and the infulated rock of Beefton, form the ruder part of the scenery; a rich flat forms the fofter view, and the profpect up the river towards Boughton, recalls in fome degree the idea of the Thames and Richmond hill. Paffed thro' Tarvin, a fmall village; in the church-yard is an epitaph in memory of Mr. John Thomafen, an excellent penman, but particularly famous for his exact and elegant imitation of the Greek character.

Delamere, which Leland calls a faire and large foreft, with plenty of redde deer and falow, is now a black and dreary waste; it feeds a few rabbets, and a few black Terns fkim over the splashes that water fome part of it.

A few miles from this heath lies Northwich, a fmall town, long famous for its rock falt, and brine pits; fome years ago I vifited one of the mines; the ftratum of falt lies about forty yards deep; that which I faw was hollowed into the form of a temple; I defcended thro' a dome, and found Br. Zool. II. 430.

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