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Description of MAULDSLIE CASTLE. MAULDSLIE CASTLE, the seat of the Earl of Hyndford, is beautifully situated on the banks of the Clyde, in a fine lawn, surrounded by rising grounds. It lies in the parish of Carluke, about four miles from Lanark, in the road to Hamilton and Glasgow. The country round may vie, for beauty and fertility, with any upon a plan by the late Robert Adams, which is generally considered as the most compleat plan of a modern castle of any assigned by that celebrated architect. The hill, or law, of Maulds lie, is remarkable for the antiquities found in it, which consist of cairns, in which are found urns, containing human bones.

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it is not easy to ascertain amidst so many buildings; but which the natives say amount to seven, like those of ancient Rome. It may rather be said to stand upon an arm of the sea, into which the Tagus falls, than upon the Tagus itself; that river not being navigable even for boats in all its long leagues of Lisbon, and the water before the town being salt, and frequently so rough, as to endanger the ships at anchor there. The inhabitants of Lisbon, however, who are jealous of the honour of their river, affirm this to be a frivolous distinction, and that in the time of the rains, an immense body of fresh water is here brought down, so as often to cause more da to the shipping than is ever ocmage casioned by the wind and tide from the sea. However that may be, the situation is admirable, and the town, full of churches, palaces, domes, and spires, rising from the edge of the water up the ascents and over the tops of so many hills, presents from the bay one of the noblest views that can be imagined, and superior perhaps to that of any city in the world. In whatever situation we view it during our approach, it is imposing, but when we land the delusion vanishes. The streets are badly paved and full of filth; the houses, with here and there a latticed window, have a melancholy appearance, and the inhabitants, some

till within twelve or fourteen