n any other city in the world. You will,
perhaps, be a little surprised when I tell you that in one principal
street, seven thousand vehicles pass to and fro every day. Almost
every kind of manufacture is carried on in London; silk goods,
jewellery, clocks, watches, ear-rings, hats, furniture, instruments of
every kind, porter and ale, with many more that I cannot now remember.
However, you must not think, from all this, there are no poor people
in London; for, unfortunately, there are thousands. Some beg, others
steal, and those who are honest and able to labour, work. But those
who cannot obtain work are very badly off; and persons die from
starvation.

The industrial manufactures of Scotland are like those of England; the
exports are linens, muslins, woollen stuffs, cottons, iron, lead,
glass, earthenware, leather, and other articles. The chief
manufacture is linen: but manufactures of stoves, and grates, and
many other things, from their immense iron works, particularly from
those of Carron, are also a principal part of the industrial products.

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The Scotch people are remarkable for their thrift and prudence; the
lower orders are in general well-educated, and it is the height of
ambition in a Scottish mechanic, to appear with his family in neat,
clean dresses, on Sundays and other holidays.

The costume of the Highlanders is very picturesque; the plaid is made
of woollen stuff, of various colours, with a jacket, and a short
petticoat called a kilt, which leaves the knees bare; the stockings
are also a plaid, generally red and white, and do not reach up to the
knees, but are tied round the legs with scarlet garters. The
head-dress is a flat blue bonnet, as it is called, ornamented round
with scarlet and white plaid, and frequently adorned with eagle's
feathers. The Highland women go without shoes or stockings, and wear
short petticoats, a plaid jacket, and a plaid scarf.

Most of the Scotch people are intelligent, and so far advanced in
education, that even the miners in the south have a library, where
they read, and improve their minds; and yet these poor miners were
little better than in a state of slavery two hundred years since. The
favourite musical instrument, with the Scotch, is the bag-pipe; which
does not, however, sound quite so well to our English ears, as it does
to theirs. Their national dances are the Highland reel, and fling,
which they perform with great agility and grace. The she