in Herefordshire, in England, 119 miles from London, is a fine old town, with a good trade, on the river Wye. It was made a free borough by Henry III. It is a populous place, famous for cider, and was noted in Camden's time for a manufacture of iron-ware. There are in it two charity-schools, which lately have been enriched by a legacy of 200l. per annum, from Mr Scott, in Dec. 1786, a second Man of Ross. And its market and fairs are well stored with cattle and other provisions. At the west end of it there is a fine broad causeway, constructed by Mr John Kyrle, the celebrated Man of Ross, who also raised the spire upward of 100 feet, and inclosed a piece of ground with a stone wall, and sunk a reservoir in its centre, for the use of the inhabitants of the town. He died in 1714, aged 90, with the blessing of all who knew him, both rich and poor. There cannot be a pleasanter country than the banks of the Wye, between this town and Monmouth. W. Long. 2. 25. N. Lat. 51. 56.

county of Scotland, including Tayne and Cromarty, stretching 80 miles in length, and 78 in breadth, is bounded on the west by the western sea, and part of the isle of Sky; by Inverness, on the south; Strathnaver and Sutherland, on the north and northeast; and by Cromarty and the Murray-Firth on the east. Tayne includes the greater part of Ross, with the isles of Sky, Lewis, and Harris. Cromarty lies on the other side of the Murray-Firth, to the northward of Inverness, extending but 12 miles in length, bounded on the south and east by part of Ross and the Firth of Murray, and by the Firth of Cromarty on the north. The shire of Ross takes up the whole breadth of the island; and being much indented with bays and inlets from both seas, appears of a very irregular form.—These bays afford safe harbours for shipping, especially that of Cromarty, which is capacious enough to contain all the fleets of Europe, being land-locked on every side, and is in all respects one of the best harbours in the known world. The Firth of Tayne, on the east side of the shire, runs up 25 miles from the sea, as far as the Cape Tarbat, dividing Ross from Sutherland: it is about seven miles broad at the mouth, but, on account of quick sands, unsafe for navigation. The country of Ross is encumbered with huge mountains, on which the snow lies for the greatest part of the year; these, however, yield good pasture; but on the eastern side, next the German ocean, the country admits of agriculture, and produces good crops of corn. The valleys are fertilized by several rivers, among which we reckon the Okel, the Charron, and the Braan; besides a number of fresh-water lakes, which indeed are found. found in every part of this country. The valleys, or straths, are generally covered with wood; and near Alfrag there are forests of fir 15 or 20 miles in length, well stocked with deer and game of all sorts. Great numbers of black cattle, horses, sheep, and goats, are fed upon the mountains; and the sea, rivers, and lakes, teem with fish and fowl. The lochs on the western coast abound with herrings in the season, particularly Loch Eu, about nine miles long, and three in breadth; one part of this is formed by a bay, or inlet of the sea; and the other is a lake of fresh water. The sides of it are covered with wood, where formerly abundance of iron was smelted. Though the middle part of Rois, called Ardross, is mountainous and scarce inhabited, the north-east parts on the rivers Okel, Charron, and Frith of Tayne, are fruitful, and abound with villages. Coygach and Afsquit, two northerly districts, are bare and hilly; yet they abound with deer and black cattle; and we see several good houses towards the coast, where there are also promontories, and huge rocks of marble.

Ardmeanach, part of the peninsula betwixt the bays of Cromarty and Murray, is a barony, which of old bore a title on the king of Scotland's second son. The district of Glen-chig, on the south-west, as the paternal estate of the earl of Seaforth, chief of the clan of Mackenzie: but the late earl of that name, having risen in rebellion, was in the year 1719 defeated at Glenfeshiel, in this very quarter, together with a small body of Spaniards by whom he had been joined. His auxiliaries were taken; and though he himself, with some of his friends, escaped to the continent, his estate and honours were forfeited. At the same time, the king's troops, who obtained this victory, dismantled the castle of Yon donnan, situated on an island in a bay that fronts the isle of Sky. It belonged to the crown; but the office of hereditary governor was vested in the earl of Seaforth, and here he had erected his magazine. Rois is chiefly peopled by the Mackenzies and Prasers, two warlike clans, who speak Erse, and live in the Highland fashion. There are fisheries carried on along the coast; but their chief traffic is with sheep and black cattle. The chief towns of Rois are Channerie, Dingwall, Tayne, and Fortrose.