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The Translator s Addition.
But, lo ! a blessing, long desired in vain,
The grateful sight at last doth entertair
T' immortalize the gentle Yeaman's rei^
Sweet streams, in leaden tubes convey'd, now crowi
The different quarters of the Ancient Town,
And add new lustre to its old renown.
Thus, while the sole defect supplied, appears,
O bless'd, O happy town ! thro' rolling years.
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To the Deacon-Convener, and other Deacons of the Nine
Worshipful Corporations of the Trades of the Town of
Dundee; viz. James Marshall Baxter, Deacon- Convener ;
Patrick Lyon, Deacon of the baxters; Archd. Walker, tan-
ner, D. of the cordiners; Alex. Watson, D. of the glovers;
James Thomson, D. of the taylors ; James Miln, D. of the
bonnetmakers; John Constable, D. of the fleshers ; Alex.
Smith, D. of the hammermen ; George Mudie, D. of the
weavers; Henry West, D. of the waulkers, — the following
Chorographical Descriptions of the Town of Dundee, in to-
ken of the profoundest respect, are most humbly inscribed
by their most obedient humble servant,
Dundee, 12th March, 1744. William Lauder.
A Description of Dundee, extracted from Dr. Gibson s Edition
qfCambdens Britannia, 2d dilioJi, 2 vols.jolio, p. 1252.
Near Tay's mouth is Dundee, which the ancients called
Alectum, and others Taodunum; a town whose Constable,
by special privilege, is Standard-bearer to the Kings of Scot-
land. Hector Boetius, Principal of the King's College, at
Aberdeen, who was born here, expounds the name — Dundee,
by allusion, Donum Dei, or, The Gift of God. This person,
in the age when learning revived, wrote an elegant history of
Scotland, out of the monuments of antiquity, so ancient that
Paulus Jovius wondered there should be in his writings, con-
cerning the remote parts of the world, the Hebrides and the
Orcades, records of about 1000 years standing, when in Italy,
(the nurse of excellent wits), there was, for so many ages after
%he expulsion of the Goths, such a scarcity of writers,
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