the chief town of Lenox or Dunbarton shire in Scotland, situated in W. Long. 4° 32'. N. Lat. 56° 30'. It is remarkable for nothing but its castle. This is a steep rock, rising up in two points, and everywhere inaccessible, except by a very narrow passage or entry, fortified with a strong wall or rampart. Within this wall is the guard-house, with lodgings for the officers; and from hence a long flight of stone-steps ascends to the upper part of the castle, where there are several batteries mounted with cannon, the wall being continued almost round the rock. In the middle of this upper part where the rock divides, there are commodious barracks with a deep well, in which there is always plenty of water. Here likewise are the remains of a gateway and prodigious high wall, at the top of which there was a wooden bridge of communication from one rock to another. This gateway was sometimes blocked up during the intestine commotions of Scotland, so that garrisons of different factions possessed different parts of the castle, and each had a gate towards the water. The castle stands in the angle formed at the confluence of the Clyde and Leven; so that it is wholly surrounded by water, except a narrow isthmus, and even this is overflowed at every spring-tide; nor is there any hill or eminence within a Scots mile of this fortress. It commands the navigation of the Clyde; and, being deemed the key of the western Highlands, is kept in some repair, and garrisoned with invalids, under the command of a governor and some subordinate officers. The government of it is worth £500. a-year.—Dunbarton is a royal borough; and formerly