they returne their tributs to their father Ocean portable;
and as it were resting places for turmoyled seas and ships:
And the principall Townes are Edenbrough, Perth, Glas∣gow,
Dundie, Abirdene, St▪ Andrewes, Aire, Stirveling,
Lithgow, Dumfreis, Innernes, Elgin, Minros, Iedburgh,
Hadington, Leith, &c. and for antiquity, old Lanerk, &c.
So the most delicious soiles of the Kingdome are these
following: first, the bounds of Clyde, or Cliddisdale, be∣tweene
Lanerk and Dunbertan, distanced twenty sixe
miles, and thence downeward to Rossay that kisseth the
divulgements of the River: the beginning whereof is at
Arick•• stone sixeteene miles above Lanerk▪ whose course
contendeth for threescore miles: All which, being the
best mixed Country for Cornes, Meeds, Pastorage,
Woods, Parks, Orchards, Castles, Pallaces, divers kinds
of Coale, and earth-fewell▪ that our included Albion pro∣duceth:
And may justly be surnamed the Paradise of
Scotland: Besides, it is adorned on both borders along,
with the greatest peeres, and Nobility in the Kingdome▪
The Duke of Lennox▪ the Marques of Hammilton, the
Earle of Angus, the Earle of Argile, and the Earles of
Glencarne, Wigton, and Abircorn.
And for Lord Barons, Semple, Rosse, Blantyre, and
Dalliell: The chiefest Gentry whereof are the Knights
and Lairds of Luce, Skell murelie, Bl••khall, Greenock,
Newwark, Houston, Pook-maxwell, Sir George Elpingston
of Blythswood, Minto, Cambusnethen, Calderwood▪ the two
Knights of Lieye, and Castel-hill, Sir Iames Lokharts elder
& yonger, Lamington, Westraw▪ his Majesties Gentleman
Sewer, Blakwood, Cobinton, Stanebyres, and Corhous▪ &c.
All which in each degree, as they illuminat the soile with
grandure, so the soyle reflecteth on them againe with
beauty, bounty, and riches.