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May it pleae your Grace,

COTLAND her elf is my Advocate, to entreat your Graces Pardon for this Attempt; An Esay to recue her from Slander in Opinion, and Reproach in the Mouths of the partial World, however meanly performed, cannot but engage her in my Behalf.

SCOTLAND has had many an ill Picture drawn for her in the World; and as he had been repreented in Fale Draughts, no Wonder the Injurys he has uffered are intolerable.

All the Spies ent hither have carry'd back an ill Report of the Land, and fill'd the World with weak Banters and Clamour at they know not what.

If I can give a better turn to the Work, and how Scotland's true Picture to the World; if I can recue her from the Malice and Ignorance of Men, they that do'nt like it may be angry, and your Grace, dicerning the Imperfection, may think me an ill Painter; but I am confident will pardon that, and approve the deign, as a tep to abler hands in time to do the Nation more Jutice.

This Attempt, may it pleae your Grace, hall clear the way to that general Character, in which Scotland hall in time, come behind no Nation in Europe, and in which he know differs only thus, That they obtain a Glory they cannot merit, and Scotland merits a Glory that he has not obtain'd; and the Conequence of this mut be, That he hall no more be ill treated in Words by thoe who dare not look her Sons in the Face.

When a Stranger cones into Scotland, Fill'd with thoe formidable Ideas which the Enemies of the Nation ignorantly and maliciouly have form'd in him, he is confounded and aham'd of himelf, the cultivated Lands, the Noble Harbours, the numerous Villages, the Seats of the Nobility and Gentry, and the Plenty of all things are perfect Surprizes, and he is apt to enquire whether this be Scotland or no.