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the Nobleman offered immediately to stake a hundred pounds, there was no such towns: in Europe, beſides, in Scotland. They ſired George but to tell the names of these towns, for they would find him out, and know whether he was a liar or not.-- When George told them their names, and two men were sent to Scotland to see them the first was Duddingstone, near Edinburgh where they came and asked for the bone-⟨judges⟩ there. The people shewed them steps almost between every door, of the skulls and sheep-heads, which they used as stepping-stones. The second was a little country ⟨village⟩ between Stirling and Perth, called Achterardoch, where there is a large land, which runs through the middle of the town, and almost at every door there is a long stick of wood or stone laid over the strand, whereupon they paſs to their opposite neighbours, and when a flood came, they would lift their wooden bridges, in case they would be taken away, and these they call their draw-bridges. The third is a village near Cambusbarron, which they past through from one end to the other, I could not see a stair in it all. So they turned to England, and told what manner ⟨of⟩ bone and draw-bridges they saw; and saw there was not a stair in all the village near Cambsubarron, for a man to get below.
