Deep in y^e Channell where I did Crosse w^{ch} was in sight of y^e mouth of the river that runs into the sea. On the sand before the water was quite gone from it I saw a great bird w^{ch} Look’d almost black picking up ffish and busking in the water, it Looked like an Eagle and by its dimentions Could scarce be any other bird. Thence I went into Scotland over the river Serke which is also flowed by y^e sea, but in the Summer tyme is not soe deep but Can be pass’d over—tho’ pretty deep but narrow. It affords good ffish, but all here about w^{ch} are Called borderers seem to be very poor people w^{ch} I impute to their sloth. Scotland this part of it is a Low Marshy ground where they Cutt turff and peate for the fewell, tho’ I should apprehend y^e sea might Convey Coales to them. I see Little that they are Employ’d besides ffishing w^{ch} makes provision plentifull or Else their Cutting and Carving turff and peate, w^{ch} the women and great Girles bare legged does Lead a horse w^{ch} draws a sort of carriage, the Wheeles like a Dung-pott and hold about 4 wheele barrows. These people tho’ with naked Leggs are yet wrapp’d up in plodds, a piece of woollen Like a Blanket, or Else Rideing hoods—and this when they are in their houses. I tooke them for people w^{ch} were sick, seeing 2 or 3 great wenches as tall and bigg as any woman sat hovering between their bed and Chimney corner, all jdle doing nothing or at Least was not settled to any work tho’ it was nine of the Clock when I Came thither, haveing gone 7 long miles that morning. This is a Little Market town Called Adison Bank the houses Look just Like the booths at a fair, I am sure j have been in some of them that were tollerable dwellings to these, they have no Chimneys, their smoke Comes out all over the house and there are great holes in y^e sides of their houses w^{ch} Letts out the smoake when they have been well smoaked in it. There is no Roome in their houses but is up to y^e thatch and in which are 2 or 3 beds, Even to their parlours and buttery, and notwithstanding y^e Cleaning of their parlour for me I was not able to beare the roome; the smell of the hay was a perfume and what I Rather Chose to stay and see my horses Eate their provender in the stable than to stand in y^t roome for I Could not bring my self to sit down. My Landlady offered me a good dish of ffish and brought me butter in a Lairdly Dish with the Clap bread, but I Could have no stomach to Eate any of the ffood they should order, and finding they had noe wheaten bread I told her I Could not Eate their Clapt out bread, soe I bought the ffish she got for me w^{ch} was full Cheape Enough, nine pence for two pieces of Salmon halfe a one neer a yard Long, and a very Large trout of an amber Coullour, soe drinking w^{th} out Eateing some of their wine w^{ch} was Exceeding good Claret w^{ch} they stand Conveniently for to have from France, and Indeed it was the best and truest Ffrench wine I have dranck this seven