William Cobbett, author of Rural Rides, published three years earlier, journeys north and finds, among others,Dunbar: ' a little sea-port apparently made for the express purpose of robbing Scotland of all its produce.';Edinburgh: 'the finest city I ever saw in my life';Glasgow: 'a city of the greatest beauty', with 'the finest, most convenient, and best conducted cattle market';Greenock: 'streets are regular, conveniently wide,' with a very fine harbour, and 'forty of the largest mills that can exist.'; New Milns: 'that public-spirited manufacturing village';Paisley: 'at no place where I have ever been in my life was I ever received with more cordiality'.His acute observations on his physical surroundings are as wide-ranging as his opinions on the social habits and circumstances of his various hosts.
- ISBN10 1845300009
- ISBN13 9781845300005
- Publish Date 20 February 2004 (first published April 1984)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 11 August 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Zeticula Ltd
- Imprint The Grimsay Press
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 268
- Language English