Series 1 > Tours in Scotland 1747, 1750, 1760

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TOUR THROUGH SCOTLAND, 1760.
went against the Scotch, who took up Arms in favour of
Chari3 the 2d he was encamped where the Duke of Rox-
borough’s Park now is, within a small mile of Dunbar, and was
so encompassed by the enemy on the hills all round, that he
was in such great want of Provisions, as to think of embarking
his foot, and of forcing his way through with the horse. In
the morning he went up to a little eminence to prayer in
sight of his Army, and seeing the enemy coming down the hill
to engage, he rose up, and said the Lord hath delivered them
into our hands. They came down with their Bibles under their
arms, and it being windy and beginning to rain, their match¬
locks would not fire, so they turned their backs, and were
entirely defeated.—I am, &c.
Letter LXIX.
Milerstone, Sepr. 24M 1760.
Dear Sister,—I went on a mile to Broxmouth, where the
Duke of Roxborough has a house and park, encompassed with
a high Wall. I came to the Bay beyond Broxburn, where I
found in the rocks what I took to be a small Kind of Coral, but
am not certain. I then came to a bed of the Mycetitce Coral,
and something like the Spawn of fish, and then to the same
Kind of Coral and Vermiculi. And I observed that lines run
straight from north to soutli in the Freestone, and that by
irregular lines from east to west, they were divided into a great
number of figures; and in some parts, the Joynts form a Circle
five or six feet in diameter, within which, the stones were
divided into many irregular parts.
At the old ruined Chapel1 of Skitraw is a soft blew slate:
Towards the rivulet which comes down from Dunglass Glyn,
are the petrifying Springs; They form a sort of figure like
Moss, and also a Yellow Alabaster, especially on the outside:
1 There stood, at one time, on the Skateraw shore a chapel, dedicated to St.
Dennys. The remains have now yielded to the sea.—New Stat. Ac., vol. ii-
Innerwick, p. 243.