FUGITIVE PIECES: WITH LETTERS, CONTAINING A COMPARATIVE VIEW OF THE MODES OF LIVING, ARTS, COMMERCE, LITERATURE, PERIODS. BY THE LATE WILLIAM CREECH, Esq. F.R.S. EDIN. EDINBURGH: Printed by George Ramsay and Company, FOR JOHN FAIRBAIRN, (SUCCESSOR TO MR CREECH); 1815. ADVERTISEMENT. THE Essays and Sketches contained in this volume, chiefly written by the late Mr CREECH, were originally published in the periodical works of the day. A considerable part of them was first collected and published in a volume, in the year 1791, under the title of " EDINBURGH FUGITIVE PIECES," and some part was afterwards inserted in the Statistical Account of Scotland. The volume in which they at first appeared as a collection having been long out of print, it is now republished, with several pieces which were not in the former edition; and it is hoped will not be unac |