b.../b one day, encountered a carpenter of the name of Roland who, by his timely information, saved the King from being the victim of a stratagem of Sir John bMenteith/b of Rusky, who was about to betray him to the English. b..../b John & Charles Wood of bPort/b-Glasgow, to lay down the keel of the first STEAMBOAT in their building yard in October, 1811: this was the celebrated Comet, and she was launched in June, 1812, being called after the great meteor of the preceding year. b.../b
At Preston, near Edinburgh, met them the Duke?s Grace, the Earl of Argyle, Lord James, the Earls of Glencairn and Menteith, Lords Ruthyen, Boyd, Ochiltree, with all the Protestant Gentlemen of the West of Fife, Angus, and Mearns, ...
