...field, at Fort George, who moft poeticjily exclaimed, VoL. I, O- « Had ( I". ) " Had you feen thofe roads before they were made, You would hold up your hands, and blefs Marflial Wade." I wifh I could fhare with you the pleafure I felt, in admiring, in a fweet ftill...

...good-natured Irishman, Governor Caulfield, at Fort George, who most poetically exclaimed, " Had you seen these roads before they were made, You would hold up your hands, and bless Marshal Wade." I wish I could share with you the pleasure I felt, in admiring, in a sweet still May...

...which the traveller is reminded of his merits by the following naive couplet:— " Had you seen tksse roads before they were made, " You would hold up your hands, and bless General Wade!!!" for their horses being never shod, the gravel would soon whet away their hoofs, so as to render them...

...into practicable military roads, and whose poem begins, and, for aught I know, ends, as follows : " Had you but seen these roads before they were made, You would have held up your hands and blessed General Wade." But, bad as the ordinary paths were, Montrose avoided...

...merits of the form, the substance of “ the Laird's distich” has been demonstrated by experience. “Had you but seen these roads, before they were...would hold up your hands, and bless General Wade.” Yes, any one who saw how very soon the sides of those roads, in districts where there was not previously...

...addressed might have some national pretension to the second sight, produced the celebrated couplet — Had you but seen these roads before they were made, You would hold up your bands, and bless General Wade. Nothing indeed can be more wonderful than to see these wildernesses...

...achievement of the road-making Marshal, that an Irish engineer officer said or sung as follows : — " Had you but seen these roads before they were made, You would have held up your hands and bless'd General Wade." Ireland, we take it, is the only place in the world...

...Had you bot seen these made before they were made, You would hold up your hand», and bless Genera] Wade. Nothing indeed can be more wonderful than to see these wildernesses penetrated and pervious in even quarter by broad accesses of the best possible con struction, and so superior to what the country...

...North. A kindred f<wK*g produced the celebrated naive couplet, stuck up near Fortwilliam, " Had you teen these roads before they were made, You would hold up your hands and bless General Wade.",] Wade, called Fort Augustus. The second line extends from Dalnacardoch north to the barracks of Ruthven,...

...A kindred feeling produced the celebrated naive couplet, stuck up near Fortwilliam, " Had you teen these roads before they were made, You would hold up your hands and bless General Wade."} "Wade, called Fort Augustus. The second line extends from Dalnacardoch north to the barracks of Ruthven,...