plenty, particularly in the fpots of corn a little way up the hills, from whence, as they always fly downwards, they are easily marked in. There are numbers of fnipes in the rufhy places below, and the hares are very numerous, but afford little fport, from the proximity of the woods, glens, and hills, to one or other of which they take, immediately on being started. The indigenous plants are chiefly oak, afh, elm, afpen, Scotch pine, and fpruce fir, which are beginning to fow themselves; birch, which is the prevailing wood, rowan, geen, fallow, alder, birdcherry, hazle, black and white thorn, of the last of which, in particular, there are fome very beautiful and venerable bushes, elder, brier, juniper, bramble, rafp, honeyfuckle, ivy, common and evergreen bilberry, cranberry, crowberry, the carduus helenioides, and on the top of the Carlop's Hill, which is the only one of the Pentland range on which it is to be met with, the cloudberry. The animals are, foxes, hares, a few rabbits, ermines, weafels, moles, rats, common and fhrew mice, adders, fcaly lizards, the common lizard, toads, frogs, &c. and bats are feen fluttering giddily about in the evenings. At times are feen gulls from the Frith, alfo, overhead, wild fwans and geese, and a variety of the white dunghill fowl, with large creft and comb, has appeared with 11 toes. On the lake is the wallard, teal, colymbus auritus, one of the dobchicks. On the ftreams, the heron, water rail, water ouzel, fandpiper, and wagtails. On the marshes, the fnipe, the woodcock in winter, the reed fparrow, the marsh titmoufe. On the rocks, the ring ouzel, which has a few fhrili plaintive notes, and very much the appearance and manner of a blackbird, and the ftonechatter. On the moors are groufe; one of thefe being almoft fhot to pieces, its ftomach was entirely filled with white moths, very common among long heath, curlews, lapwings, and grey plovers. On the fields, the hen harrier, partridges, land rails,

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fky larks, corn buntings, fnow buntings, field fares, mountain finches, and the goatfucker, or night fwallow. In the hedges, common and hdge fparrows. In the woods the buzzard, fparrow hawk, jay, magpie, crow, ring-dove, of which there are great numbers, cuckoo; a young cuckoo was feen at the head of Monk's Burn, flying after a titlark, from which it got the fignals when to keep out of danger, by following his guardian and guide; it was alfo frequently obferved feeding him, when the little nurie, to get at his mouth, generally leapt on his back, and made him turn round his head, which was as big as the other's whole body. The crossbill, attracted by the cones of the fpruce, the plates of which, to get at the feed, are found in numbers folded back with great dexterity; the bullfinch, ftirling, thruth, blackbird, redbreast, linnet, all the finches, and titmice, including the blue and the long tailed one, alfo a very finall and beautiful bird, the creeper, like a little mouse running up the trees for infects; the yellow, common and golden crefted wrens; the fwallows about the house, in fummer, and in the woods, at nights, the owl, horned and fmooth. In 1784, a hoopoe was fhot by a gentleman, in coming here from the Whim, in the Parish of Newlands, a little to the fouth,

To the above Appendix the following obfervations are requested to be added: After the word describo, page 618, line 3, add, The wawking of the faulds, gives the tune to the very firft fong which opens the play under confideration, and was naturally pitched upon, where fuch an occurrence is alfo often and fo ftrikingly exhibited,-p. 601, l. 5, for freight

read

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read fright. do. line 7. for proprietors, read proprietor.—p. 603, l. 24, for hill read rill.-p. 6c8, 1. 9, for fouth-eaft and north-weft, read fouth-weft and north-eaft.-p. 605, for fruis cafis, read fruifcaris.-p. 617, 1. 7. for rival read revel.-do. 1. 22, for inclines read declines.-After the word scenery, p. 620, read the following fentence: Ramfay was an enthusiast in scottish mufic, and befides his own, which are numerous, he has made a large collection of fongs wrote by others of his countrymen; and it was in all probability from his connections with him, that Gay, whofe genius, originally, feems to have been of a very fimilar caft, has shown his attachment to our tunes in his celebrated play of the Beggar's Opera. To the defcription of Leadlaw Hill, add, And the excavations made in confequence of working the metals, at the fouthern extremity on the north fide of the Leadlaw Hill, are ftill called by the inhabitants, the filler (filver) holes.

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NUMBER II.

ADDENDA,

Relative to the Account of the Parish of Latheron, in Caithness, page 24.

On the celebrated eftate of Langwell is the FOREST, or ORD of Caithness, of which there is the following account in M-Farlane's Geographical Collections M. S. in the Advocate's Library.

HE hill of the Ord is that which divides Sutherland

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and Caithness. The march is a fmail rivulet, called The Burn of the Ord of Caithness, which takes its rife from fome fprings near the top of the hill. The fouth fide of the hill is very steep, floping all along to the top of a rock, which is many fathoms high. Crofs the fouth fide of this hill is the common paffage to and from this country. The road hath not been fo very dangerous, as at first view it would appear to the traveller; for the whole face of the hill, to the top of the rock, has been covered with long heath; fo that, though a perfon's foot might flip, he was not in great danger; but whether, through moor-burning, •or fome other accident, it hath happened some few years ago, that the heath was all burnt, and now it looks more frightful than formerly; but the road, by the pains of SIR

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JAMES SINCLAIR of Dunbeath, is made fo broad, that

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• horses can conveniently ride it abreast. A little to the east of the Burn of the Ord, which is the march, there is a pleasant green moat, called the Dunglafs, as high as the top of the rock. Since the heath was burnt, paffengers, who obferve, may fee the veftiges of a ditch, digged up from the moraffes, about a mile above the top of the fore faid rock. The top of the Ord is large 9 miles, of bad road, to the fouth-weft of the church.'

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