the county town of Argyleshire, in Scotland, pleasantly situated on a small bay formed by the junction of the river Ary with Loch-fine, where the latter is a mile in width and 60 fathoms in depth. Here is a castle, the principal seat of the dukes of Argyle, chief of the Campbells. It is a modern building of a quadrangular form, with a round tower at each corner; and in the middle rises a square one glazed on every side to give light to the staircase and galleries, which has from without rather a heavy appearance. This castle is built of a coarse lapis ollaris brought from the other side of Loch-fine; and is of the same kind with that found in Norway, of which the king of Denmark's palace is built. The founder of the castle, the late Duke Archibald, also formed the design of an entire new town, upon a commodious elegant plan, becoming the dignity of the capital of Argyleshire, a country most admirably situated for fisheries and navigation. The town hath been rebuilt agreeable to the original design; and the inhabitants are well lodged in houses of stone, lime, and slate. They are fully employed in arts and manufactures, and plentifully supplied in the produce of sea and land.—The planting around Inverary is extensive beyond conception, and admirably variegated; every crevice, glen, and mountain, displaying taste and good sense.

The value of the immense wood at this place, for the various purposes of bark, charcoal, forges, paling, furniture, house and ship building, is thus estimated by Mr Knox: "Some of the beech are from 9 to 12 feet in circumference, and the pines from 6 to 9; but these being comparatively few, we shall state the medium girth of 2,000,000 trees planted within these last hundred years, at 3 feet, and the medium value at 4s. which produces 400,000l.; and this, for the most part, upon grounds unfit for the plough, being chiefly composed of hills and rock." One of these hills rises immediately from the house a great height, in the form of a pyramid, and is clothed to the summit with a thick wood of vigorous ornamental trees. On this summit or point Archibald duke of Argyle built a Gothic tower, or observatory, where he sometimes amused himself. The ascent by the road seems to be half a mile, and the perpendicular height about 800 feet.