Series 1 > Tours in Scotland 1747, 1750, 1760

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TOUR THROUGH SCOTLAND, 1760.
modern medals and some Coin of different Countries : The
Keeper of it is Mr. Goodall,1 who has writ much in defence of
Mary Queen of Scots and affirms that some letters referred to
in Robertson’s history of Scotland are spurious but this
remains to be proved.
Edinburgh is governed by a Lord Provost and Corporation ;
he may continue two years, and when any person is found of
superior merit in that high office, they put in another the third
year, and bring him in again the year after.
A gentleman here who is a Chymist, has found out a Method
to make Sal Ammoniac: It is more white and Transparent than
the Egyptian, and it is thought that Soot goes into the Com¬
position, There being an Alcaline Salt in the Coal.—I am, &c.
Letter LXIII.
Arnistown, Sepr. i%th, 1760.
Dear Sister,—I made some excursions round Edinburgh.
From the Castle one sees two Eminences extending from East
to West: The North Lough is to the south of them, and they
are divided by the river Leith, upon this Lough there is a Sul¬
phurous water lately found, to which the people are resorting
all the day, it consists of Sulphur and an alcaline Salt, and is
good in Scorbutic disorders. I rid to it, and then across the
other hill to Newhaven. A street along the top of each of
these hills with hanging gardens on each side, and a street
at the east end of them extending to the West end of Leith
would make it a most glorious City. They purpose, as before
mentioned, to build three streets along the Southern hills.
New haven is now only a poor fishing village; The Edin-
Burghers having bought the place, not chusing that trade
should take a turn that way; Though James 4th made a har¬
bour and Dock at this place; From it we saw Royston now
called Caroline Park the seat of Lady Dalkeith & Barnbugal
Lord Roseberry’s.
We came half a mile to Leith harbour, passing first by the
1 Walter Goodall, author of Examination of Letters said to have beeti written
by Mary Queen of Scots to Earl of Bothwell, 1754, 2 vols.