singular groups of huge, irregular, and diversified
tenements that could well be conceived. Here a
stunted little timber dwelling black with age, and ~
beyond it a pile of masonry, rising, storey above
storey, from some murky propound that left its
chimneys, scarcely rivalling those of its dwarfish
MAHOGANY LAND-
(Fmm a Mrafured Drawing & T. Hnmihn, #dIiskcd in 1830.)
case of his is thus reported by Lord Fountainhall,
under date July 6th, 1709 :-
?? Duncan Campbell, of Ashfield, giving himself
out to be the best lithotomist and cutter for the
stone, pursues Mungo Campbell, of Netherplace,
that he being under the insupportable agony of the
neighbours, after climbing thus far from their foundations
in the depths below.?
The Edinburgh Gazeffe for July, 1702, informed
the public that Duncan Campbell, of Ashfield,
chirurgeon to the city of Glasgow, was receiving
patients in his lodging at the foot of the West Bow,
and that he was great in operations for stone,
having ?cutted nine score persons without the
death of any, except five?; and one astounding
I gravel, and was kept down in his bed by two ser- ? vants, sent for the said Duncan to cure him, who
leaving the great employment he had, waited on
him for several weeks ; and by an emaciating diet,
fitted him for the operation, then cut him and
brought away a big stone of five ounces? weight, and
since that time he has ehjoyed better health, for
which extraordinary cure all he got in hand was
seventeen guineas ; whereas, by his attendance
