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 | | To this family, who were deeply embarked in commerce, Scotland owes much of the advancement of her foreign and domestic trade during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. |
 | | In the beginning of 1638, he joined with the earl (afterwards the marquis) of Montrose and other loyalists, for the national covenant, and in that critical year, and also in 1639, he was elected lord provost of Edinburgh. |
 | | Sir Alexander, referring to the doctor’s remarks as to the then want of trees in Scotland, says, “The truths you have told, and the purity of the language in which they are expressed, as your ‘Journey[ is universally read, may and already appear to have a very good effect. |
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