Cities ak-d
T owns. .
Greenock. •
Dunfftrmline.
Dunkeld.
and a few veffels are built. Inhabitantsf about||oxD.q. ... ||Irwin, has
: .ab.oo|
Lanark'ftands in a moil pidiirefcpic country, near the celebrated- falls
■of the Clyde- It was only noted for its. academy, under the management
of Mr. Thomfon, brother-in-law ©f Thornton the poet, till the
irecent-cotton manufacture,'athh other sefedions by the patriotic ^dr.
Dale, jflnderedithis' tovmvftill mdiie w o rth y o ffattenUon.
i. JGreenock and 'P ort tQlafgow, are confiderahle town's,-which - %tve
arifen to.'celebrity, by fharing. initiba trade -of Glafgow. jis
fUppofed. to I boh S in i^dd-O inhabifdht^ $lri?artr Gla^pwtab®n|^®©o.
Pailley, in the fame county, is celebratedsby its manufad'ures o f riXu^lin,
lawns, aiijhtgauzdsf to the annual *arhQuntj- its is daifl, 3 ffifce
population amountsjto about 2-c%>b©.t< Dumbarton' {©pf-the1lop.pgfye
. f^ re'eo f the Clyde^ contains abbve-agjop- {bills,, arid, .isbllfp.lithfefiient
.-in the manufadures o f .Qlalgow,. |.; j
y Stirling is rather remarkable for- -its lebmmanclingjb andf,t§^l^KKoyal
Situation, than for.,its induftry.- The inhabitants are e ^ ^ 'fi|e d ,4 t" ^ p o .
. Between .Stirling .and Edinburgh Hands Bonefs,! f©}?®ei?|y'b^|l|,f4 ’»{Bor-
. rowftowriefs,« in the m idft of 'em e rie s , and" falt-wpr{ksf>Lth&.haFbpiir is
; good, and there arer.about 2600 inhabitants.
T h e county, ofEife-contains many-townsjjfprnf-, .ofawhibh "werfe in a
more lloHrilhingdituati'on, rwheii, Scotland carried u'n,q^edh||def able* in-
r tercourfe with France. Dunfermline, isj-^a pleal^npffo^ssn, 4|^ ^ a ih in g
about jQooJnhabitants, and-carries on a confiderahle marin|^}|:mfe of
'diapers. .There are ruins oCafpalaee, the royal refiden«g|n ih eM h d p f
Malcolm II I.- Sn Andrew’s has about 2 , 5 ^ ’,]$ feychiefly-|gm^|ahle
- for its ruined cathedral. .
I J'prfar, in Angus, contains about 340b fouls, and the linen manufactures
defei've mention, j
Dunkeld is ofvgtjerable and pi&upelgpe,fame, but
< lu re s are inconfiderable.. Brechin contains about; ^ ^ D p e o p l e : its
produ&s are linen, cotton, and tanned leather. Montrofe has ap ^ u a l
population, and a few manufadure s; the buildings are irioftly fgodern
and' heat.
The
.iT'hecdjlnty-of-Meaiins prfefehts no\l®wn worth.meMon. Peterhead^
hi Aberdeen (hire, ec>ntains yijropt'.aooo. fouls;; It- has a- mineral fpring,
and carries o n fome- trade with the Baltic, ; Frazerburgh, near the
p rombj^yytpf, f£.iniiajrd He.ad,'hag-al'^o$ tolerable ^arbour. ;!•
Portfoy. is.a fea-p|rt:town, peopled with about 2.000 fouls. In the
neighbourhood,-;are ;the. rocks ,well known to mineralogifts', containing
elegant granites,, of different kinds,-...terpentines,.and fteatites, with their,
ufual concomitants, albeftos an4 aeiianthus..
Elgin, the capital of. the county of Moray, boafhs of the remains o f an
elegant cathedral- and is fuppofed to contain 40.00 inhabitants. -
Invelnefs is an., ancient and flo-urifhing town, the capital o f the
northern Highlands. The population is computed, at 10,000. The
chief manufadures are rope's.and candles. (A n academy has lately been
founded here on hmesSdelfent plan:
-. iTh'^eWiJtiown^for-thri^^-^h .rferth aftefof lhridMcoaht. 'Port Rofe
has o a |l 8bfc> fo«l's<r; bilh -QrbtearSy h i s about«3 0 ^ , ! <&'iMahshiianufalsi-
ture ofecoarfe cloth,’'and fume coa<ftin.g trade inyedrn, ithifeddy yarn^
hails, -fifli, and Ik ins, Dingwall ephfains 706 fou’ls, and a ferafill linen
manufadure. Tain has about 100.0 inhabit ants, t, Dornoch was a once:
the ECfidence o f the hi {hops’ ofoGaithnefs: population only-v^b J After
a dreary interval .Wick oecursytha lafb tdfortt « tk k d ieaftern-CQah:-the
inhabitants,.about .'Xv^pyEhiefly deaf ihikqdland1 Berrir^sfliijl
• Thurfd, on the northern-fhore,’ frbnting the Orkneys^ has mahufifch
hires ;of woollen and lin e n ^T o p u la tie n about
Hence there is a lamentable; vqi|I along the weftera half o f Scotland,
till we^’-acrive at-Inverary, in Argylefhire, the. foundation p f the noble
houfe o f Afgy.le, after palling a fpace of about 160 miles,.where only-
a few feattered hamlets- can be founds Inverary is a neat and pleafant
town, of abo.u;t;-id o o foul's | there are manufa-dures o f linen and woollen-,
and-a confiderahle iron-work. The ore is brought from the weft- of
England, and is fmelted with G'harcoal from the woods of Argyleihire.-
Iri the fame county is Campbeltowri, a royal borough, in the fouthern
part of the peninlula of Gantire. The trade is ^irifiderable, as it is the.
general refort of the fifhirig- veffels and. the inhabitants are computed^
at about 5 boo.’- 7 he'harbour .is escqellent, in 1 the. forjn o f fa ‘crefcen-fe,^
' v'OL. i.. - z-> • . , ' ' opening;
Cities Asm-
T ow n s ..
Portfoy, '-..
jjjff
ItiVernefe# $
Inyeraryv
CampUU
towny,. ’ -