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on a bridge built by the Marshal in 1733, when the roads were formed by the army under his command:

Mirare Hanc viam militarem Ultra Romanos terminos, M. Passuum CCL, hac illac Extensam, Tesquis et paludibus insultantem, Per montes rupesque patefactam, Et indignanti Tavo Ut cernis instratam. Opus hoc arduum, sua solertia Et decennati militum opera A. Ær. Xnæ. 1733, posuit G. Wade Copiarum in Scotiæ Præfectus. Ecce quantum valeant, Regis Georgii II. Auspicia.

But the most singular poetical effusion on this subject, is said to have been composed by a Mr. Caulfield, who was employed in the business by the Marshal:

Had you but seen these roads, before they were made,You'd lift up your hands, and bless Marshal Wade.

ALBANIA.

P. 157. v. 1. Drummond, in his "Forth feasting," uses Albania as a poetical name for Scotland:

Whate'er beneath Albania's hills do run,Which see the rising or the setting sun———
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