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s Magazine ; and 1749, the first English Review, the Monthly. -Allan Kamsay, in 1735, founded the first reg- ular circulating library in Britain ; in 1699, the first Scottish newspaper that showed vi- tality was started under the title of ihe Edin- burgh Gazette, followed in 1705, by the Edinburgh Courant. About the same time the banking system was greatly developed, and in 1711 the post oflBce was extended to Scotland. The good effects of these mea- sures were slow to show themselves. Many yea...rs elapsed before their infiuences were made publicly manifest; and from 1715 to 1745, English jealousy excluded the Scotch from participating in the colonial trade, CEAP-BOOKS ■ OF SCOTLAND. loi Scotland being treated more as a conquered province, than an independent country on an equal footing with .its wealthier rival. But, though the good seed was long of com- ing to maturity, its progress was almost miraculously rapid when it did begin to ripen, and the harvest proved to be one of astonishing fertility and wealth.
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