REV. JAMES HALL, A. M. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. London: PRINTED FOR J. JOHNSON, ST. PAUL'S FROM ABERDEEN TO BANFF. FROM Aberdeen, where I spent a week very pleasantly and experienced much civility and hospitality, as every stranger who is introduced to any respectable person in the place does, I crossed the Don, by a very fine bridge of one large arch, on my way to Peterhead. The people in England, nay, even in the south of Scotland, have scarcely any conception of the astonishing improvements of late made in the roads, &c. &c. all around this thriving and really polished capital of the north of Scotland. The roads on the north side of Aberdeen are made in different directions, in some places to the extent of thirty miles, as well as on the south side of it, at the expense of, I believe, five shillings per yard. They are mettled with hard stones, broken down to about the bigness of hens eggs, nine inches deep, a sufficient breadth, and then covered with gravel. And what serves to point out the growing prosperity and enterprizing spirit of the gentlemen in this part of the country, is, that there is a canal almost parallel to one of the great lines of roads, already dug as far as the burgh of Inverary, by which means goods. may be carried backward and forward to and from Aberdeen, near twenty miles either by land or water. The gentlemen and land proprietors of each parish advance money, in a certain proportion, to make |