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out the affiflance of any machinery. The price of coal here is fml
twenty pence'to half a crown a tun.
The moft remarkable modern building here is the Tolbooti
with a flender fquare tower, very lofty, and topped with aconl
roof. Mr. Chalmers has alfo made a work of vaft expenceovertj
glen on the weft end of the town, in order to form a communicatiol
with his eftate, and to encourage buildings and improvements on
that fide. To effeft which, he formed an arch three hundred feet J
length, twelve feet wide, and ten high; covering the whole witl
earth, feventy-five feet thick.
This place had been at times, from very diftant periods, the
refidence of the Scottijh monarchs. Malcolm Canmor lived here, ind
caftle on the top of an infulated hill, in the midft of the glen; but
only fome poor fragments remain. A palace was afterwards built J
on the fide next to the town, which falling to decay, was re-built b l
Arne of Denmark, as appears by the following infcription :
PropyUum et fuperjlruilas aides vetuftate et injuriis temporum celkpfd
airutafqiie; a fundamentis in hanc ampliorem formam, rejlituit et iA
Jlauravit A n n a Regina F r e d e r i c i D a n o r u m Regis auguUnA
Filta: Anno falutis 1600. ■ 1
The ruins are magnificent, and do credit to the reftorer. In this]
palace lhe brought forth her unfortunate fon Charles I . A gate-j
way intervenes between the royal refidence, and the magnificent
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Begun by Malcolm Canmor, and finilhed by Alexander T. It was!
pro a y firft intended for the pious and more uleful purpoiej
ot a religious infirmary, being ftyled in fome old manufcriptsl
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