K KiiaroWi Kilcboman, and Kilmeme. The latitude * o f Free-
prf. 55° 52' 29" The face of the ifland is hilly, but nothigh :
Hie loftjieft hills are Aird inifdail, Diur-bheim, and Sgarbb-bbein.
Me land, in many parts is excellent, but much o f it is covered:
hrith heath, and abfolutely in a ftate of nature.
■The produce is. corn o f different kinds; fcch as bear, which P roduce,
Bjmetimes yields eleven-fold; and oats fix-fold: a ruinous diftil-
Ikion prevales here; infomuch that it is fuppofed that more o f
Ithe bear is drank in form of whiiky; than eaten in the ihape o f
pannocs. Wheat has been raifed with good fuccefs in an inclo-
Ijbre belonging to the proprietor; but in an open country where
ploii of the cattle go at large, it is impofilble to cultivate that
j grain ; and. the tenants are unable to inclofe. Much flax is raifed
litre, and about 2009/. worth, fold out o f the ifland in yarn,.
1 vfhich might better be manufactured on the fpot*. to give employ.
| to the poor natives-
H A fet of people worn down with poverty: their habitations Houses^
Hpnes of mifery,. made o f loofe Atones; without chimnies, with-
| ant doors, excepting the faggot oppofed to the wind at one o r
■her of the appertures, permitting the fmoke to efcape through
itjie other, in order to prevent the pains of fuffocation. The
s rfurniture perfectly correfponds: a pothook hangs from the middle
■ the roof, with a pot pendent over a gratelefs fire, filled with
Bte that may rather be called a permifiion to exifi:, than a fup-
I fort of vigorous life : the inmates,, as may be expeCted, lean,
■ * am greatly indebted to DOflor Lind for the true latitude; and fo ra beautiful
®aP of the iile from which I take my meafurements.
withered,,
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