O ih a b u r g h s , which began about feven years ago ; and contributed-
m jich to make the place more populous. Here is alfo a con-
fiierable one of knit worfted and thread docking. Women gain
fo b r -p è n c e a day by knitting,, and fix-pence by fpinning 5 the men,
'.«hilling by weaving.
B lh e manufactures of the Mens may be divided thus : the
flicking trade employs the natives from the banks of the Dee to
this place. From hence to the Nortb-EJk they are wholly occupied
inweaving.
Bvifit the celebrated caitle of Dunnoier, built on a lofty and
plninfualed rock, jutting into the fea, and divided by a vaft .
c|afm, a natural fofs, from the main land. The compolition of
tie rock is what is commonly called Plumb-ptcdding ftone, from the
jfbbles .lodged- in the hard cement. Kittiwakes and fome other
gulls breed on the fides.
HThe entrance is high, through an arched way. Beyond that
»another, with four round holes in front, for the annoying any
ejemy who might have gained the firft gate. The area on the_
% of this rock, is an Englijh acre and a quarter in extent. The
wildings on it are numerous, many of them vaulted, but few ap-
#ared to have been above a century and a half old, excepting a
ijuare tower of a conflderable height, and the buildings that
jHfend the approach. The lides of the rocks are precipitous,
Jd even that part which impends over the ifthmus has been cut, 1 order to render this fortrefs itili more fecure. The ciftern is
| 'H filled up -, but had been of a great fize, not lefs than?
■cnty-nine feet in diameter.
M P ,C view of the cliffs to the fouth is very pitturefque. They
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