STATE of the BAROMETER in inches and decimals, and of Farenheit's THERMOMETER in the open air, taken between 12 and 3 o'clock, afternoon; and the quantity of rain-water fallen, in inches and decimals, from the 22th of Sept. 1787, to the 31st of October 1787, near the foot of Arthur's Seat.

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VIEWS IN SCOTLAN D.

TOWER of CLACKMANNAN,

HE small town of Clackmannan is pleasantly fituated on a hill, long the feat of the Chief of the Bruces, flopping on every fide; and on the fummit is the Castle, commanding a noble view. The large fquare Tower is called after the name of Robert Bruce; whose great fword and cafque are still preserved there. The hill is prettily wooded; and with the Tower, forms a picturesque object.

Inftructions to Grown Horsemen. By Geoffrey Gambado, Efq. With Prints by Mr Bunbury, Folio.

PHILA

HILANTHROPY has induced me, fays the author of this humorous treatise, in his preface, to make known to the world the following rules; by obferving which alone, horfemanship may become a fafe and pleafing amufement: and I doubt not, but every true judge of the noble art will acknowledge the excellence of my inftructions; and every true lover of it applaud my public fpirit, in circulating them a broad for the benefit of mankind at large.

May many be the necks they preferve for nobler purposes.

As I fhall be as concife and explicit as poffible, in the valuable inftructions and discoveries I am now about to communicate to the world, it will be the reader's own fault if he does not profitably benefit by them. When I have told him how to chufe a horse, how to tackle him properly, in what fort of drefs to ride him, how to mount and manage him, how to ride him out, and above all, how to ride him home

again; if he is not a complete horseman, in the course of ten or a dozen fummers, I will be bold to foretell, that neither the skill of Mr Aftley, nor the experience of Mr John Gilpin, will ever make him one.

To define a perfect horfe is nearly impoffible, and to tell you where to buy one, completely fo. However, I fhall endeavour to defcribe fuch outward beauties and active qualifications as are requifite to the compofition of one; and should füch a phoenix fall in your way, (and the taste of these times are fo vilely perverted, I believe you have a better chance at prefent than you would have had fome years back), I hope you will not let him flip through your fingers.

The heighth of a horfe is perfectly immaterial, provided he is higher behind than before. Nothing is more pleafing to a traveller than the fenfation of continually getting forward; whereas the riding a horfe of a contrary make, is like fwarmCc 2

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