ring fishery. It is above 30 miles long, but its breadth scarce two. Lough Lomond is another + magnificent piece of water. The first view of it from Tarbat prefents an extenfive serpentine winding amidft lofty hills: on the north, barren, bleak and rocky. which darken with their fhade that contracted part of the water.On the weft fide, the mountains are cloathed near the bottoms with woods of oak quite to the water edge; their fummits lofty, naked and craggy. On the eaft fide, the mountains are equally high, but the tops form a more even ridge parallel to the lake, except where Ben-Lomond, like Saul amidit his companions, overtops the reft. The upper parts were black and barren; and the lower had great marks of fertility, or at least of induftry, for the yellow corn was finely contrated with the verdure of the groves intermixed with it. The eastern boundary is part of the Grampian hills, which extend from hence through the counties of Perth, Angus, Mearns, and Aberdeen. They take their name from only a fingle hill, the Mons Grampius of Tacitus, where Galgacus waited the approach of Agricola, and where the battle was fought fo fatal to the brave Caledonians. Antiquarians have not agreed upon the particular fpot; but the able Mr. Gordon places it near Comerie, at the upper end of Strathern, at a place to this day called Galgachan Moor. But to return. The road runs fometimes through woods, at others is exposed and naked; in fome, fo fteep as to require the fupport of a wall: the whole the work of the foldiery: bleffed exchange of inftruments of deftruction for those that give fafety to the traveller, and a polish to the once inacceffible native. 'A great headland covered with trees feparates the firft fcene from one totally different. On paffing this cape an expanfe of water burits at once on your eye, varied with all the fofter beauties of nature. Immediately beneath is a flat, covered with wood and corn; beyond, the headlands ftretch far into the water, and confift of gentle rifings; many have their furfaces covered with wood, others adorned with trees loosely fcattered either over a fine verdure, or the purple bloom of the heath. Numbers of islands are difperfed over the lake of the fame elevated form as the little capes, and wooded in the fame manner; others just peep above the furface, and are tufted with trees; and numbers are fo difpofed as to form magnificent vistos between. Oppofite Lufs, at a fmall diftance from fhore, is a mountainous ifle almost covered with wood; is near half a mile long, and has a moft fine effect, I could not count the number of islands, but was told there are twenty-eight: the largest two miles long, and stocked with deer. + Mr. P. obferves, that it is an idle obfervation of fome travellers with refpect to thefe lakes, that feeing one is the fame as feeing all thefe fuperb waters; but he fhews, in a pretty review of all thofe he has fucceffively described, that each has its proper and distinct chaacter; and that their appearances are all happily and strikingly varied, to the eye of a nice and judicious obferver. • The The length of this charming lake is twenty-four Scotch miles; its greatest breadth eight: its greatest depth a hundred and twenty fathoms. Befides the fish common to the loughs are Guiniads, called here Poans, The country from Lufs to the fouthern extremity of the lake continually improves; the mountains fink gradually into small hills the land is highly cultivated, well planted, and well inhabited. I was ftruck with rapture at a fight fo long new to me: it would have been without alloy, had it not been dashed with the uncertainty whether the mountain virtue, hofpitality, would flourish with equal vigour in the fofter fcenes I was on the point of entering on; for in the Highlands every houfe gave welcome to the traveller. The vale between the end of the lake and Dunbarton is unfpeakably beautiful, very fertile, and finely watered by the great and rapid river Levin, the difcharge of the lake, which, after a fhort courfe, drops into the Firth of Clyde below Dunbarton: there is fcarcely a pot on its banks but what is cultivated with bleacheries, plantations, and villas. Nothing can equal the contrast in this day's journey, between the black barren dreary glens of the morning ride, and the foft fcenes of the evening, iflands worthy of the retreat of Armida, and which Rinaldo himself would have quitted with a figh.' Our Author takes leave of the Highlands, by obferving that every entrance into them is ftrongly marked by Nature; viz. On the South, the narrow and wooded glen near Dunkeld inftantly fhews the change of country. On the Eaft, the craggy pafs of Bollitir gives a contracted admillion into the Grampian hills. On the North, the mountains near Lough-Moy appear very near, and form what is properly flyled the threshold of the country; and, on the Weft, the narrow road, impending over Lough-Lomond forms a moft characteristic entrance to this mountainous tract.' After defcribing Dunbarton, town and caftle, our Author (Sept. 8.) paffes by the ruins of Dunglas caftle, near the banks of the Clyde, which meanders finely along a rich plain, full of barley and oats, and much inclofed with good hedges, a rarity in North Britain. At a diftance are fome gentle rifings, interperfed with woods, and villas belonging to the citizens of Glafgow. Our Author joins with all who have feen Glafgow, in beflowing great praifes on its buildings, in which refpect it is certainly fuperior to any fecond-rate city in the inland. He def-, cribes its handfome streets and market places; its flourishing trade, its college, churches, &c. and then proceeds, (through a rich and beautiful corn country, adorned with fmall woods, and gentlemen s feats) to Hamilton-house, about twelve miles from Glafgow. Here he faw many good pictures, fome by the firit matters; but the building itself, he fays, is a large and disagreeable pile. Returning Returning to Glasgow, he croffed the country, and arrived at Stirling. In refpect of fituation, this town, he fays, is a miniature of Edinburgh: being built on a ridged hill, rifing out of a plain, having the caftle at the upper end, on an high, precipitous rock.' From the top of the castle, 'fays Mr. P. is by far the finest view in Scotland. To the Eaft is a vaft plain rich in corn, adorned with woods, and watered with the river Forth, whofe meanders are, before it reaches the fea, to frequent and fo large, as to form a multitude of most beautiful peninfulas; for in many parts the windings approximate so close as to leave only a little isthmus of a few yards. In this plain is an old abbey, a view of Alloa, Clackmannan, Falkirk, the firth of Forth, and the country as far as Edinburgh. On the north, the Ochil hills, and the moor where the battle of Dumblain was fought. To the weft, the ftrath of Monteith, as fertile as the eaflern plain, and terminated by the Highland mountains, among which the fummit of Ben-Lomond is very confpicuous.' Falkirk is the next object of the traveller's attention. This town is no less famous for its great fairs for black cattle, from the Highlands, than for the battles that have been fought here with the English. Our Author feldom, if ever, fails to note the principal fields of battle, in this part of the kingdom; but fcarce a fpot, fays he, has efcaped unftained with gore, for had they no public enemy to contend with, the Scots, like the Welsh of old, turned their arms against each other,' Proceed to Hopeton-houfe, the feat of the Earl of Hopeton, and the boaft of Scotland. It was begun by the famous Scottish archite, Sir William Bruce, and finished by Mr. Adams. This building Mr. P. pronounces the handfomeft he saw in North Britain. The front is enriched with pilafters; the wings at fome distance joined to it by a beautiful colonade: one wing is the ftables, the other the library. The great improvements round the house are very extensive; bat the gardens are ftill in the old tafte: trees and fhrubs fucceed here greatly; among others were two Portugal laurels thirty feet high. Nothing can equal the grandeur of the approach to the house, or the profpect from it. The fituation is bold, on an eminence, commanding a view of the firth of Forth, bounded on the north by the county of Fife; the middle is chequered with islands, fuch as Garvey, Inch Keith, and others; and to the fouth-eaft is a vaft command of Eat-Lothian, and the terminating object the great conic hill of North-Berwick. The whole ride, Mr P. fays, from Stirling to Queen's-ferry (near Hopeton houfe) is not to be paralleled for the elegance and variety of its profpects: the whole is a compofition of all that is great and beautiful: towns, villages, feats, and ancient towers, decorate cach bank of that fine expanfe of water the Firth; while the bufy fcenes of commerce and rural economy are no fmail addition to the ftill life. The lofty mountains of the Highlands form a diant but auguft boun-' daly dary towards the North weft; and the Eastern view is enlivened with fhips perpetually appearing or vanishing amidit the numerous ifles.' Paffing, Sept. 12. by Queen's-ferry, our traveller now fell into the Edinburgh road, and, in that capital,' fays he, this evening, finished a moft agreeable and profperous Tour. He now, very naturally, allotts a few moments to recall the idea,' of what he had feen; to imagine the former condition of this part of the kingdom; to compare it with the present ftate; and, by a fort of fecond fight, make a probable conjecture of the happy appearance it will affume in a very few years. Nor could he forbear repeating the prophetic lines + of Aaron Hill, who feemed feized with a like rêverie. "Once more! O North, I view thy winding fhores, Yet fill by nature, not by cenfure try. Whom art enlivens, and temptations whet: Rich, proud, and wanton, the her beauty knows, And be the toast when Albion's charms decay." After a few days experience of the fame hofpitality in Edinburgh which our traveller gratefully acknowledges he had met with in the Highlands, he continued his journey South; defcribing, en paffant, the most remarkable places he met with in his return through the fouthern border of Scotland, and the North of England, till he happily arrived at the place from whence he fet out: fee Review for last month, p. 48. His Appendix contains I, a curious account of the conftitution of the church of Scotland; II. An account of the fafting woman of Rofsfhire; an extraordinary phenomenon! III. A defcription of the amazing parallel roads in Glen Roy; IV. A collection of Galic (or Erfe) proverbs, with English tranflations; alfo epitaphs, and fmall pieces of English poetry, tranflated into the Galic. V. An account of fome remarkable pillars in Penrith Church-yard, with an engraving; VI. A recapitulation of the animals mentioned in the Tour, with additional remarks in Natural Hiftory, and engravings of fome beafts, birds, and fishes: VII. Queries, addreffed to the gentlemen and clergy of North Britain, respecting the antiquities or Natural Hiftory of their respective parishes: to thefe are added, an Itinerary, and an Index to the Tour. + Written on a window, in North Britain. *Our Author has never failed to give as fatisfactory an account of the feveral antiquities he met with in his Tour, as could be ex pected from a tranfient visitor, We We shall now bid adieu to this pleafing publication, but we mult not forget to mention, that Mr. Pennant has illuftrated a number of his defcriptions by feveral prints, befide thofe already spoken of, viz. Views of Dunkeld Cathedral, of a calcade near Tayinouth, of Blair, of Brae-Mar-Caftle, of Invernfs, of Frefhwick-caftle, of Caftle Urquhart, of the upper fall of Fyers, of Stirling Castle, and of fome antiquities: all engraved on Octavo plates, fuitable to the fize and form of the book. MONTHLY CATALOGUE, For FEBRUARY, 1772. RELIGIOUS and CONTROVERSIAL. Art. 13. An Apology for the prefent Church of England, as by Law eftablished, occafioned by a Petition, &c. for abolishing Subfcriptions; in a Letter to one of the Petitioners. By Jofiah Tucker, D. D. Dean of Gloucester. 8vo. I s. 6d. Bladon. 1772. IT T cannot admit of a doubt, that Dr. Tucker is by far the ablest of all the writers who have hitherto appeared in oppofition to the Petitioning Clergy; and he hath treated his fubject with a spirit of liberality and candour, not eafily to be found in any of the perfons that have been engaged on the fame fide of the question. The Dr. begins his letter with felecting two poftulata, which he hopes, and believes, will not be controverted. The firft is, That all focieties must have fome common center of union, and be governed by fome rule, either expreffed or implied, written or traditionary. And the fecond, That thofe perfons, who are admitted members of fuch focieties, and more efpecially thofe who propofe themselves to be candidates for offices, and honourable diftinctions in the fame, are to be fuppofed to approve of this rule in the main, and this center of arion, whatever it may happen to be.' From thefe poftulata the ingenious and worthy Dean has drawn a number of conclufions favourable to his caufe, fome of which will by no means be affented to by the gentlemen who with to exclude Subfcriptions to human Formularies from Chriftian and Proteftant churches. Indeed, we are clearly of opinion, that in feveral refpects, he has laid himself open to just animadverfion and criticism; but, instead of pointing out the places wherein we do not concur with him, we shall gratify our judicious and candid readers with an extract, a confiderable part of which they will perufe with great pleasure. As to the Athanafian Creed, it is really fuperfluous in our prefent fervice; because the very fame doctrine is as strongly, though not as fcholaftically maintained in the Nicene Creed, the litany, and in many other parts of our public offices and as the damnatory claufes are feldom rightly understood, and therefore too liable to give offence, it were to be wished that the whole was omitted. Indeed there is another weighty reafon for leaving this creed out of our prefent forms of public worthip, which, as it is perfectly found and orthodox, |