Towns > Dundee > 1822 - Dundee delineated; or, A history and description of that town, its institutions, manufactures and commerce

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so eminent in regard to their skill and industry in
business, that they have got more rivals than equals
in the kingdom.
" The town is divided into four principal streets,
which we may suppose to represent a human body
stretched on its back, with its arms towards thet
west, and its lower extremities (the author in the
Latin language uses words more particular) towards
the east. The Steeple represents the head, with
an enormous neck, rising upwards of eighteen sto-
ries into the clouds, and surrounded with two bat-
tlements, or galleries — one in the middle, and ano-
ther at the top, like a crown adorning the head ;
whose loud-sounding tongue daily calls the people
to worship.
" The right hand is stretched forth to the poor, for
there is a large and well furnished hospital on this
side ; but the left hand, because nearer the heart,
is more elevated towards heaven than the right, in-
dicating a devout mind panting after celestial joys.
In the inmost recesses of the breast stand the sa-
cred Temples of God. So remarkable were the
people of this place for their adherence to true re-
ligion, that, at the Reformation, it was honoured
with the appellation of ' the second Geneva.'
" On the left breast is a Christian burial-place,
richly and piously ornamented, that the pious dead
may be long held in admiration and esteem. On
the belly is the market-place, at the middle of which
is the cross:"— [Here, as we quote from a literal
translation, without having the Latin itself, we can- ;
not carry on the resemblance, though very correct,
unless it were expressed in the original words.]