The Republic of Scotland

CAMDEN. Dunbar, a fortress formerly most fortified, the seat of the Earls of March, frequently captured by the English and recovered by the Scots; but in the year 1567, by the authority of the Estates, it was demolished so that it might not be a refuge for the seditious. Haddington, or Hadina, sitting by the little river Tyne, in a plain stretched far out, which the English fortified with a deep ditch and a large exterior sod wall, with four bulwarks at the corners, and as many others at the interior wall, in a square shape. Dalkeith, the very pleasant dwelling of the Earls of Morton. Edinburgh, in the Hiberno-Scottish language Duncaden: this city, with a rather elevated situation, a healthy climate, and rich soil, surrounded by many towers of the nobility, and irrigated by springs of perennial waters flowing forth, extended a thousand paces from east to west, with half that width, is reckoned by the best right as the head of the whole kingdom, firm with walls, beautiful in its public and private buildings, populous and famous for the maritime convenience which the neighboring port at Leith provides. To the east is the Royal Palace, attached to the Holyrood Monastery, which King David the First built; a hill hangs over it, full of wild rabbits and hares in the warrens, from the Briton Arthur called Arthur's Seat.