Note 63 — Chapter I
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I find one instance of its being praised by a man who was not a Scotchman. Alexander Necham ‘takes notice of Perth in the following distich, quoted in Camden's Britannia:
Transis ample Tai, per rura, per oppida, per Perth: Regnum sustentant illius urbis opes. Thus Englished in Bishop Gibson's Translations of Camden's Book: Great Tay, through Perth, through towns, through country flies: Perth the whole kingdom with her wealth supplies.’
Sinclair's Scotland, vol. xviii. p. 511.