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for it is often found greatly bent. As foon as they difcover t J
their efforts are in vain, they fwitn away with amazing rapid!»]
and with fuch violence that a vefiel o f 70 tuns, has been towj
by them againft a frefh gale: they fometimes run off with'«¡I
fathoms o f line, and with two harpoons in them ; and will i j
employ to the fifhers for twelve and fometimes twenty-four houj
before they are fubdued. When killed they are either hauled J
fhore, or if at a diftance, to the veffel’s fide. The liver O
only ufeful part) is taken out and melted into oil in velfels p J
vided for that purpofe : a large fifh will yield eight barrels of oii
and two of fediment, and prove a profitable capture.
The commifiioners o f forfeited eftates were at confiderable exJ
pence in encouraging this fpecies of fifhery ; but the perfon tW
confided in, moft fhamefully abufed their goodnefs; fo at prefent
it is only attempted by private adventurers.
Return, land again and walk through a pretty wood of (Mil
trees, up the fide of a hill that bounds the weitern fide of the
bay. A gigantic frog * o f the fpecies called by Limans, BmM
prefented itfelf on the path. In the eourfe of our ramble, fall in
with the manfe, or minifter’s habitation; pafs a chearful evening
with him, and meet with a hearty welcome, and the beft fa re tkj
place would afford. Return to our fhip, which had anchored in
the bay.
Procure horfes, and (accompanied by JVTr. Lindfay, the miniMj
ride up the valley, crofs the little river Ranza, and leave that and J
a corn-mill on the right. Afcend the fteeps o f the barren moun-1
* Vide Enumeration of Animals and Plants, No, z jr .
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| fls with precipices often on the one fide o f our path, o f which
|ur obftinate fteeds preferred the very margin. See to the Weft
k e c-reat crags of Grianan-Athol, with eagles foaring over their
Diked fummits. Pafs through woods o f birch, fmall, weather-
leaten and blafted : defcend by Mac-farlane’s Cam, crofs the water
ySmocks, near the village o f the fame name: fee a low mo-
§umental ftone; keep along the Eaftern coaft; hear a fermon
■reached beneath a tent formed of fails, on the beach ; the congregation
numerous, devout, and attentive, feated along the fhore,
forming a groupe pifturefque and edifying.
■ Dine at the Corry; a fmall houfe, belonging to a gentleman of
IMrJhire, who vifits this place for the benefit of goats whey.
■ Much barrenefs in the morning’s ride: on the mountains were
|great mafles of moor-ftone ; on the fhore, mill-ftone, and red grit-
Kone.
I The ride is continued along the coaft, beneath low cliffs, whofe
fummits were cloathed with heath that hung from their margins,
i and feerned to diftil fhowers of cryftalline water from every leaf,
Bhe effect of the various fprings above. Meet a flock of goats,
Ikipping along the fhore, attended by their herdfman; and ob-
prved. them collecting, as they went, and chewing with great de-
Bight, the fea.plants. Reach
I irodie caftle, feated on an eminence amidft flouriihing planta- B r o d ie c a s t l e .
i 'tions, above a fmall bay, open to the Eaft. This place has not
at prefent much the appearance of a fortrefs, having been modernized;
is inhabited by the Duke of Layniltons agent, who en-
Kertained me with the utmoft civility. It is a place of much an-
tictuty, and feems to have been the fort held by the Englijh un-
C c 2 der