the Allectum or Taidodunum of the ancients; a well-built, flourishing town of Scotland, in the shire of Angus or Forfar, and ranking the 3d of the royal boroughs. It is seated on the north-side of the river Tay, about eight miles from its mouth, in W. Long. 2° 48'. N. Lat. 56° 26'. Its situation for commerce is very advantageous: trading vessels of the largest burden can get into its harbour; and on the key there are three very convenient and handsome warehouses, built in 1756; as well as good room for ship-building, which is carried on to a considerable extent. The houses are built of stone, generally four stories high. The market-place, or high-street, in the middle of the town, is a very spacious square, from whence branch out the four principal streets; which, with several lesser ones, have been all lately well paved. On the south-side of the market-place, stands the town-house, an elegant structure, finished in the year 1734: it contains the guild-hall, the court-room, a finely painted masonic lodge, the post-office, the bank, and vaulted repositories for the records. At the east end of the high-street, there is a fine new edifice, erected principally for a trades-hall, but designed also to answer occasionally for a theatre. Three established churches, besides several chapels and meeting-houses, having been found insufficient for the number of inhabitants, a new church has been lately built, which is reckoned one of the most elegant in the kingdom.—Here is also a magnificent square Gothic tower or steeple, now standing by itself, but which formerly made part of a venerable and superb building of churches in the form of a cross, erected by David earl of Huntingdon brother to William I. of Scotland, and dedicated to the Virgin Mary. This he did on his return from the third crusade, (in which, with 500 of his countrymen, he had accompanied Richard I. of England, anno 1189,) in gratitude for his deliverance from several imminent dangers; and particularly from shipwreck, by which he had nearly perished when in sight of this place. At the same time he changed the name of the town from Allectum to Dei Domus, from which its present name is thought by many to be derived; and under this new name we find it increasing considerably in the 13th century. The destruction of the churches adjoining to this tower, was the work of Edward I. of England, that barbarous destroyer of Scottish monuments and records. He was so exasperated at the inhabitants standing out against him, and aiding his inveterate foe the famous Wallace, that he set fire both to the churches and to the town itself; the flames destroying all but a part on the east end, now called the old kirk. The town suffered very much about the middle of the last century. For just six years after it had been taken by storm by Montrose, it was besieged in form by General Monk: and although it made a gallant defence under major-general Lumfden, it was at last, on the 1st of September 1651, carried by force, when all that were in arms were put to the sword; and to great were the riches of the town, all the neighbouring gentlemen with their best effects having retired to it as a place of safety, that every private soldier in general Monk's army had near 60 pounds Sterling to his share of the plunder. This is reckoned the greatest loss ever Scotland sustained at one stroke, there being above 60 vessels in the harbour at that time. To enable the inhabitants to recover from this calamity, and to repair their harbour and other public works, Charles II. granted them an excise of one third of an English penny upon every gallon of ale or beer sold in town for 25 years, which has been continued by five subsequent acts, and is highly serviceable. At present Dundee is in a very flourishing condition. The shipping are reckoned near 100 sail; and the manufactures go on briskly. These consist consist of linen (especially ofinaburghs), fail-cloth, cordage, threads, thread-stockings, buckrams (a new work in Scotland), tanned leather, shoes, and hats; not only sufficient for their own consumpt, but for exportation in considerable quantities. An excellent sugar-house has also now subsisted for about 10 years, and does considerable business. The Ofinaburgh trade is undoubtedly the staple, of which there have been above four millions of yards stamped here annually of late. Their coloured threads have been long famous; and are manufactured to a considerable amount. The number of inhabitants is reckoned near 16,000.