■ Kikrow, Kilchoman, and Kilmeme. The latitude * o f Free-
■ 5go 52"2 g ' N. The face of the ifland is hilly, but not high :
¡thetoftieft hills are tfird inifdail, Diur-bheinn, and Sgarbh-bbein.
(The land in many parts is excellent, but much o f it is covered
Igjh heath, .and abfolutely in a ftate o f nature.
BaThe produce is corn o f different kinds; fcch as bear, which
[ fom e t im e s -yields eleven-fold; and oats fix-fold: a ruinous diftil-
I lation prevales here; infomuch that it is fuppofed that more o f
I the bear is drank in form of whiiky ; than eaten in the lhape o f
[bannocs. Wheat has been raifed with good fuccefs in an inclo-
|jbre belonging to the proprietor; but in an open country where
ll s i l of the cattle go at large, it is impoffible to cultivate that
I grain; and . the tenants are unable to inclofe. Much flax is raifed
ijiere, and about 2000./. worth, fold out o f the ifland in yarn,.
which might better be manufaaured on the fpot,, to give employ.
1 l|the poor natives..
H A fet of people worn down with poverty ': their habitations
fefnes of mifery, made of loofe ftones; without chimnies, with-
| tut doors, excepting the faggot oppofed to the wind at one or"
Btlther of the appertures,. permitting the fmoke to efcape through
I the other, in order to prevent the pains of fuffocation. The
¡furniture perfeftly correfponds: a pothook hangs from the middle
:jf the roof,, with a pot pendent over a gratelefs fire, filled with
ifere that may rather be called a permifiion to exift, than a fup-
feort of vigorous life : the inmates,, as may be expeaed, lean,
* lam greatly indebted to Doctor Lind for the true latitude; and fo r a beautiful
I tap of. the ifle from which I take my meafurements.
withered,,
PRODUCE,
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