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T o w w h o u s e .
New c h u r c h .
C a s t l r .
F o r t a t B r o u g h -
T a y C r a g .
A t o u r
The town-houfe is a moil elegant itrudture, begun m the »
m o and fimfhed in 1734. It was carried on under the
of the father of the gentlemen to whom we owe the AdihU I
contains the poil-office, the court room, with vaulted repofj
for the records, the guildhall, and the council-chamber
Here is a new church, built in a ityle that does credit tot
place, and which Ihews an enlargement of mind in the preibj
beamy of10hobIfs 'S‘n ^ ^ ^ ^ be Praiftd
. There is not a relique left of the antient caftle s but its J
may be found where the Lion inn now Hands'
. Two or three miles eaft of Dundee, on the river, are the 9
I J m fleet C ^ This PIa« was taken by tk
o r W I547’ °n lnvafion o f Scotland, by the Duked
m * Trhe remained in poffeffion of it till 5
w en it was furrendered to the French' under M. Dejfe, who byi
capture freed the Scots from a moil troublefome neighbour.
This place derives its name from Dm, a hill, and Tay, the riwl
J le L m b ^ B°ethiUS fayS’ thaC its ant'ent name J
¿ 3 2 ? nann0t " °n 1 1 f°Undation- Roman fleet
but from d i 7’ might haVC h3d 2 ftati°n in ill H
either cam ' igent enqulry 1 cannot learn that there have I
difcovered V ' W ^ f H ° traCes "covered in the neighbourhood. of tha£ nation
mentioned^ T 'Ceu I I W 1 Jn hift0ry is on the occaiion be J
chancred ’ W^ n , EaH °f Huntingd™ founded its church; and
changed as ReethcuS affms, its .name from AkStum to Dsi Do-
§ g ^ a C°nfiderable Place tHe time of Edward I, J
in
THE 1EW - CHURCH AT .DUNDEE .