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family confidered it as a dear acquifition, by the lofs of tr.iM
gallant followers, and by the expences incurred in fupport of J
A t prefent it is in pofieffion of Mr. Campbel, of Shawfield, an!
the rents are about 2300/; per annum..
Weigh anchor at three o’clock in the morning : with the alSij
anc.e of the tide get out of the Sound. See,, on the Nor.th.'WeJ
fide, the place where that gallant enemy Thurot lay, a t differeJ
times, expefting the fit opportunity of his invafion, to be deter*
mined by the news he had o f the fuccefs o f the Brefi fquadroJ
He was told that he lay in a dangerous place; but he knew than
his fecurity confifted, in cafe a fuperior. force came againft litrl
in being able either to take to fea, or efcape through the S«®
according to the quarter the attack came from. His general!«
and humanity is fpoken of in high terms by the. iflan ders; anf
his diftrefs appeared very deep when, he was. informed of the mil
carriage of Conflans’s fle e t.
Leave, on the Bay coaft, near the mouth o f the Sound, the ceJ
tebrated cave of" Uamh-Fhearnaig, or Uam-mhor. Fourteen orfifl
teen families retire to it during the fine feafon, as their JhuirM
or Summer refidence; and three families refide in it. the wlioil
year.
About- eight or nine mites from the mouth of the Sound lie hi
files of Oranfay and Colonfay. The ftillnefs o f the d a y made til
paffage tedious; which induced us to take boat: the view, mi®
way, was very fine of Bay and Jura, of the opening into L‘ili
Barbat, a bay penetrating deep into Jura, and affording anchor»®
for large veffels ; as was experienced a very few years ag o , by ®>|
o f eight hundred tuns, driven in during night: the mailer f°und J