Mitchell 234; included among other travels and tours in Scotland “because it is not in the ordinary form of a Tourist’s Guide, being rather the impressions of the author during various journeys he had made”. As well as describing his journeys to the expected ‘beauty spots’ M’Nayr visited New Lanark and “Mr. Dale’s Cotton Mills” - an early account, and one of few to describe the mills before they were bought by Robert Owen. Of the 1400 employees, more than 500 were children, and the Guide gives a detailed account of their living and working conditions: what they wore (cotton) and what they ate (”alternately beef and cheese for dinner”), as well as their education, from 7.30-9.00pm every day. In consequence “out of nearly three thousand children employed at these mills between their erection in 1785 and January 1797, only fourteen have died... what ground for self-gratulation must this afford to the munificent owner”.