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82 JOURNAL OF A TOUR IN SCOTLAND
and not unhandsome pile, built by Adams
(one of the Adelphi) some forty years ago ;
a good bridge of seven arches by Smeaton ;
the open sea, not as we had hitherto seen
it, grey under a sunless sky, but bright and
blue in the sunshine ; Banff on the left of
the bay ; the river Deveran almost lost amid
banks of gravel where it enters the sea ; a
white and tolerably high shore trending East-
ward, a Kirk there with a spire which serves
for a sea-mark, and on the point, about a
mile or mile and half to the E., the town
of Macduff.
Here we rejoined Mr Telford, Mitchell
and Gibb, and went with them to the pier,
which is about half-finished, and on which
15,000£ will be expended to the great benefit
of this clean, cheerful, active town. Lord
Fife has begun a similar work at his town
of Macduff, the cost has been estimated at
5000£, but is likely greatly to exceed that
sum. The pier was a busy scene — hand-
carts going to and fro on the rail -roads,
cranes at work charging and discharging
huge stones, plenty of workmen, and fine
masses of red granite from the Peterhead
quarries. The quay was almost covered with
barrels of herrings, and women employed in