Qfnaburghs, which began about feven years ago ; and contributed-
jSich to make the place more populous. Here is alfo a con-
ficierable one of knit worfled and thread flocking. Women gain
foiir-pênce a day by knitting, and fix-pence by fpinning < the men,
a jhilling by weaving.
Brhe manufactures of the Merns may be divided thus : the
ftbcking trade employs the natives from the banks of the Dee to
this place. From hence to the North-EJk they are wholly occupied
«weaving,
taVifit the celebrated caille of Dmnoter, built on a lofty and
| peiinfualed rock, jutting into the fea, and divided by a vail
:■ claim, a natural fofs, from the main land. The compofition of
lie rock is what is commonly called Plumb-pwdding Jione, from the
pfbbles .lodged- in the hard cement. Kittiwakes. and fome other
gglls breed on the fides.
j^HThe entrance is high, through an arched way. Beyond that
i iifenother, with four round holes in front, for the annoying any
■pn'.y who might have gained the firil gate. The area on the
t® oflthis rock is an Englijh acre and a quarter in extent. The
wildings on it are numerous, many of them vaulted, but few ap-
Bared to have been above a cçntury and a half old, excepting a
£|i?,re tower of a coniiderable height, and the buildings that
Ifend the approach. The fides of the rocks are precipitous,
jdeven that part which impends over the iithmus has been cut,
'I order to render this fortrefs flill more fecure. The ciftern is
»oil filled up -, but had been of a great fize,. not lefs than*
J^ty-nine feet in diameter.
■The view of the cliffs to the fouth is very piéturefque. They
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