Ladfmen feem to have conlulted the luxuries as well as necefifaries
f Return to Dumfries, where Mr. Hill, furgeon, favored me with the
fight o f the head o f an old lady, excellently painted, about forty
iears ago, by Mr. JohnPatom, fon to aminifter in this town. After
tinting three years in Scotland, about the year 1730 he went to
¡Lo n d o n , where he read leftures on the theory of his art: at length
Sras tempted to make a voyage to Jamaica, where he died in a few
weeks, leaving behind him the character of a good man, and able
■rtift. '
■ Before we left the town, we were honored with its freedom, bellowed
on us in the politeft manner by the magiftrates.
■ Continue my journey due North through the beautiful Nithfdale,
or vale of Nith, the river meandring.with bold curvatures along
rich meadows; and the country, for fome fpace, adorned with
»roves and gentlemen’s feats. A t a few miles diftance from Dumfries,
leave on the left, Bandanna and Keir, conje&ured by Mr.
Uorfely to have been the Carbantorigum of Ptolemy. Travel over
finall hills, either covered with corn, or with herds of cattle, flocks
of black-faced iheep, attended by little pallors, wrapped in their
maides *, and fetting the feafons at defiance. The river ftill keeps
Jts beauty, wandring along a verdant bottom, with banks on each
fide cloathed with wood ; and the more diftant view hilly. Ride
through a tra£t covered with broom, an indication o f barrennefs 5
and arrive in fight of Drumlanrig, a houfe of the Duke of §ueenjbury,
magnificently feated on the fide of a hill, an immenfe mafs, em-
J u n e 6.
D r u m l a n r i g .
* A fort of long cloak.
R bofomed