You are defired to be prefent at a Meeting of the Philofophical Society, in the College of Edinburgh, Thursday 20. Day of Dee next, Four o' Clock in the Afternoon, OR, A JOURNEY Thro' most of the COUNTIES of SCOTLAND, And Thofe in the NORTH of ENGLAND. In Two P ARTS. PART I. Containing an Account of all the MONUMENTS of The Whole Illuftrated with Sixty-fix Copper Plates. By ALEXANDER GORDON, A. M. Quanta Caledonios attollet Gloria Campos, Afpicis: Ille dedit, cinxitque hac Mania Foffa. Cernis adhuc Titulos, hunc Ipfe vacantibus Armis LONDON: Printed for the AUTHOR; Statius ad Crifpinum. And fold by G. STRAHAN, at the Golden-Ball, in Cornhill; J. WOODMAN, in 1.2.8 44 14 Ente Steed wp. 9.28 44 50691 To HIS GRACE CHARLES, DUKE of QUEENSBERRY and DOVER, &c. My LORD, A S the Monuments of Antiquity, exhibited in the following Sheets, are chiefly intended to illuftrate the Roman Actions in Scotland, and, of confequence, the Atchievements of its Ancient Inhabitants; Your Grace will here perceive, from uncontested Authorities, how great the Struggle has been, in the One for Conqueft, the Other, for Liberty to their Country. This being the general Scope of the prefent Effay, there is none to whom I can fo naturally have recourfe for Protection, and Countenance, as Your Grace; whofe illuftrious Ancestors have, for Ages, been fo eminent in defending and establishing their Nation's Honour and Liberty; and certain it is, the Name of DOUGLAS, is too highly exalted in the Annals of Europe, to bring this in Doubt. What Pleasure must I then receive, in finding Patronage from one who Poffeffes, as by Hereditary Right, the many fhining Qualities of |