them. They were taught to believe themfelves o f fuch confr
quence that in thefe days turned to their deftru&ion. Two re
’tent rebellions gave legiilature a late experience of the folly 0f
permitting the feudal fyftem to exift in any part o f its .dominion],.!
The aft o f 1748 at once deprived the chieftains o f all power of
injuring the public by their commotions *. Many of thefe Regi\
fecond this effort o f legiilature, and negledt no opportunity of
rendering themfelves hateful to their unhappy vaflals, the former
inftruments o f ambition. The Halcyon days are near at hand.-j
oppreffion will beget depopulation ; and depopulation will giveus
a dear-bought tranquility..
The remainder o f the day is paft in the found of Jura: about!
twelve at noon a pleafant but adverfe breeze arofe, which obliged
us to keep on towards the North, fometimes tacking towards the I
coail of lower Knapdale, black with heathy mountains, ver-1
dant near the ihores with trails o f corn: advance towards upper
Knapdale, rugged and alpine: am told o f a dangerous rock in the
middle o f the channel. About one o’clock o f
J u k e 30. receive notice o f getting into the harbour o f the /mollifies ofjmJ
by the veflel’s touching ground in the entrance. On the appearance
o f daylight find ourfelves at anchor in three fathom and a
half water, in a moil piiturefque bay, bounded on the Weft bf
the ifle o f Jura, with the paps overihadowing us and to the Ealt!
ieveral. little iflands cloathed with heath,, leaving narrow admif- i
fions into the port at North and South: in the maps this is called
the bay of Meil.
Land on the greater ifle, which is high and rocky. A boat
» The ail for aboliihing heritable jurifdiaions, &c.
filled
¡filled with women and children croifes over from Jura, to
Lolled their daily wretched fare, limpets and perriwinkles. Ob-
Lve the black guillemots in little flocks, very wild and much
bn motion.
I Mr. Campiel, principal proprietor o f the ifland, is fo obliging as to
Bend horíés: land in
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Lt a little village, and fee to the right on the fhore the church,
land the minifter’s Man/e. Ride Weftward about five miles to
I irl-fin, the refidence of Mr. Campiel, feated above the found of
l/oy.
I Jm the moft rugged of the Hebrides, is reckoned to be about
■thirty-four miles long, and in general ten broad, excepit along the
gfcund of Hay: is compofed chiefly o f vaft mountains, naked and
¡¡without the poflibility o f cultivation. Some o f the South, and a
little of the Weftern fides only are improveable : as is natural to be
Ifuppofed, this ifland is ill peopled, and does not contain above feven
lor eight hundred inhabitants ; having been a little thinned by the
■epidemic migrations.
■ The very old clans are the Mac-il-vuys and the Mac-rdines: but it
Brems to have changed mafters more than once : in 1549 *, Donald
B)f Cantyre, Mac-gtiillayne of Doward, Mac-guillayne o f Kinlock-iüy, and
wlac-Duffie of Coknfay were the proprietors : Mac-lean of Mull had
■Hoa fhare in 1586. A t prefent Mr. Campiel by purchafe from Mr.
E®ttpbel of Shawjield; Mr. Mac-neile of Colonfay, Mr. Campiel of Shaw-
wld-, and the Duke of Argyle divide this mafs o f weather-beaten
IW en n efs among them.
* Dean of the liles.
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