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182 The drive from the Brig of Earn to Dupplin, is beautiful; with a great variety of ground, and the continued woods of Dupplin, on the right hand; and on the left, the Earn river sweetly winding through the Strath, with the high green range of Oichill Hills, bounding the scene to the south. The trees, as I drew nearer to Dupplin, delighted me; ash, beach, lime, oak, in short, every kind of tree, extremely large, and in abundance; with a mixture of birch, mountain ash, maple, and alder; affording a variety of tints that added infinite beauty to the whole scene.

To the south of Earn, seen from the Dupplin road, is a part of the rich verdant Strath, ornamented by Freeland, Lord Ruthven's; Rossie, and Invermay, Mr. Belche's. A few miles from the Brig of Earn, towards the junction of the river Earn with the Tay, is Abernethy, the old town of the Picts; now a very poor place; though there are still remains of some of its ancient steeples.

The ground around Perth, I was told, lets from two to three, and five pounds a Scotch acre, which is about one-fourth more than an English acre. Butter is about ten-pence a pound, twenty-two ounces. Not only butter, but eggs, and