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DUNDEE 53
closed up in less than three minutes, just
in time to escape a heavy rain, and we arrived
at Dundee just as the daylight failed.
Wedfiesday, August 25. — Before breakfast
I went with Mr T. to the harbour, to look
at his works, which are of great magnitude
and importance — a huge floating dock, and
the finest graving dock I ever saw. The
town expends 70,000£ upon these improve-
ments, which will be compleated in another
year. What they take from the excavations
serves to raise ground which was formerly
covered by the tide, but will now be of the
greatest value for wharfs, yards, 6cc. They
proposed to build fifteen piers, but T. assured
them that three would be sufficient ; and in
telling me this he said the creation of fifteen
new Scotch Peers was too strong a measure.
The bellman as we returned was crying
that something, we could not make out what,
was to be sold perceesly at half past eight.
Some women asked the price ; he told them
to go and buy some, and they would see ;
and looking at us with a smile as he passed
on, said, " What's the price to me ? " Bought
a statistical account of Dundee, 1792, by
Robert Small, D.D. — a sensible, satisfactory