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of them wear hats, hut a party-coloured blanket,which they call a plad, over their heads and shoul-ders. The women generally to us seemed none ofthe handsomest. They are not very cleanly in theirhouses, and but sluttish in dressing their meat.Their way of washing linens is to tuck up theircoats, and tread them with their feet in a tub. Theyhave a custom to make up the fronts of their houses,even in their principal towns, with firr boards nailedone over another, in which are often made manyround holes or windows to put out their heads. Inthe best Scottish houses, even the king’s palaces, thewindows are not glazed throughout, but the up-per part only, the lower have two wooden shuts orfolds to open at pleasure, and admit the fresh air.The Scots cannot endure to hear their country orcountrymen spoken against. They have neithergood bread, cheese, nor drink. They cannot makethem, nor will they learn. Their butter is very in-different, and one would wonder how they couldcontrive to make it so bad. They use much pot-tage made of coal-wort, which they call keal, some-times broth of decorticated barley. The ordinarycountry houses are pitiful cots, built of stone, andcovered with turves, having in them but one room,many of them no chimneys, the windows very smallholes, and not glazed. In the most stately and fa-shionable houses, in great towns, instead of cieling,they cover the chambers with firr boards, nailed onthe roof within side. They have rarely any bel-lows, or warming-pans. It is the manner in someplaces there, to lay on but one sheet as large as two,turned up from the feet upwards. The ground inthe valleys and plains bears good corn, but especially