Irmed. Inftead of the halbert, they ftill retain the antient weapon,
|izLochaber ax.
I In the Parlement-clofi, a fmall fquare, is the Parlement houfe,
there the courts of juftice are held. Beneath are the Advocates library,
and the regifter office. In my former Tour, I mentioned
[ertain curiofities preferved in the library ; but negle&ed the notice
if others in a fmall but feledt private cabinet.
Among others in the cabinet of Mr. John Macgouan, difcovered
hear this city, is an elegant brafs image of a beautiful Naiad, with
L little Satyr in one arm. On her head is a wine-vat, or fome fuch
IdTel to denote her an attendant on Bacchus; and beneath one foot, a
Subverted vafe, expreffive of her charafter as a nymph of the fountains.
The Satyr is given her, not only to ihew her relation to the
lovial God, but from the opinion that the Naiades were mothers*
I f that fyIvan race.
I A veflel refembling a tea-pot, with a handle and fpout. It
»ants a lid, but the orifice is covered with a fixed plate, .full of
perforations, like thofe of a watering-pot. Count Caylus has given
a figure of a pot of this kind; but is as ignorant as myfelf of its
Ife.
Some fpear heads, and a brazen celt finely gilt. This embellifh-
ment of the laft intimates, that the inftruments of that fort were not
jfor mechanic ufes; but probably the heads of javelins or enfign
Raffs f .
In the fame colledtion is an iron whip, a mod cruel inftrument of
puniihment among the Romans. The handle is ihort; the lafb, a
* Mm/aumi, from the authority o f Nomus, Antiq. E x fl. I. part ii. 261.
t Borlafe, Antiq. Cornvjal.
I i chain
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