JWNE 7,
Burifdeer is the maufbleum of the family of BrumUnrig: over the
door o f the vault are four fpiral pillars fupporting a canopy, all of
marble : and againft the wall is a vaft monument in memory of
James Duke of ¡^ueenjbury : his grace lies reclined on his arm, with
the collar o f S. S. round his neck. The Dutcheis, in her robes re.
cumbent; four angels hold a fcrol above, with this infcription:
Hie
in eodem tumulo
cum Chariffimis-conjugis cineribus
mifci voluit fuis
Jacobus Dux £>ueenjburia et Do verni }
Qui
ad tot-et tanta honoris
Et negotiorum failigia
Quas nullus antea fubditus
attegit, eveflus, Londini
fato ceffit fexta die
JuJii anno CHRiSTi Redemptoris
1711.
And beneath is an affectionate and elegant epitaph on his Dutchefs
who died two years before his Grace.
Vifu Tibbir caftle, about a mile below BrumUnrig, placed on a
fmall hill above the little flream, the Tibber. Nothiiio- remains
■but the foundations overgrown with ihrubs : It is fuppofed to
.have been a Roman fort, but that in after-times the Scots profiting of
the fituation, and what had been done before, built on the place a
fmall caftle; which tradition lays, was iurprized by a ftratagem in
time o f William Wallace *.
Gordon's Itin, ig,
This
* The beauties of Brumlanrig are not confined1 to the higheft
kart of the groupds; the walks, for a very confrd'erable way, by
ithe fides of the Nitb, abound with moft pidturefque and various
Ifcenery: below the bridge the fides are prettily wooded, but not
¡remarkably lofty ; above, the views become wildly magnificent:
•the river runs through a deep and rocky channel, bounded by
fvafl: wooded cliffs; that rife fiiddenly from its margin; and the
■r&fpedt down from the fummit is of a terrific depth, encreafed
by the rolling of the black waters beneath: two views are particularly
fine; one of quick repeated, but extenfive, meanders
ax.idil broken iharp-pointed rocks, which often divide the river
into feveral channels, interrupted by ihort and foaming rapids,,
colored with a moory teint. The other is of a long ilrait, narrowed
by the fides, precipitous and wooded; approaching each other
"equidiftant, horrible from the blacknefs and fury o f the river,,
and the fiery red and black colors of the rocks, that have all the-
appearance of having fuftained a change by the rage o f another'
dement.
I Crofs the bridge again; and continue my journey Northward for
fix or feven miles, on an excellent road,., which I was inform’d was
,|he fame for above twenty miles farther,, and made at the foie expence
of the prefentDuke of HJueenfbury : his Grace is in all refpedts
a warm friend to his country,, and by ■pramia promotes the manu-
Jisdtures of woollen fluffs, and a very ftrong fort o f woollen-flock-
rings; and by tfvefe methods will preferve on his lands a ufeful and
induftrious population, that will be enabled to eat their own bread,.
;and not opprefs their brethren, or be forced into exile, as is the cafe;
in.many other parts of N, Britain,
T he