Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Beauties of Scotland, Vol. 1: Containing a Clear and Full Account of the Agriculture, Commerce, Mines, and Manufactures; Of the Population, Cities, Towns, Villages, &C. Of Each County
To the' southward the country from Edinburgh gradu-adjoining ally rises with a great variety of surface, and the view iscoumry' terminated by lofty mountains, which, at one point, are scarcely five miles distant. On the west the territory is more level; so that from Edinburgh Castle a fine plain is seen richly cultivated, and stretching to the distance of 14 miles, where. The country gradually ascends, till it forms the elevated tract which looks down upon the course of the river Clyde and the city of Glasgow.
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