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The tender cattle are houfed during winter. The common manure
of the country is dung, or fea-wrack.
Still on board. The weather very bad.
Land at the bottom of the bay, in
R O S S - S H I R E .
Procure horfes. Obferve fome houfes built for the veteran foldiersl
and failors ; but as ufual, all deferred. Proceed up Strath-Kenmrd'X
which with Coygach that bounds the north fide of the bay is a for-1
feited e-ftate, and unalienably annexed to the crown. The commit)
fioners give all pofiible encouragement to the tenants; and have!
power to grant longer leafes than the lairds are inclined to do, which I
keeps the people under the government contented, and banilhesl
from their minds all thoughts of migration.
Kindnefs and hofpitality pofiefs the people of thefe parts. Wei
fcarce pafied a farm but the good woman, long before our approach,!
fallied out and ftood on the road fide, holding out to us a bowl of I
milk or whey.
Afcend a very high mountain, and pafs through a birch wood,'!
over a pretty little loch: various other woods of the fame kind!
were fcattered over the bottoms ; but the trees were fmall. Roots of I
pines filled all the moors, but I law none o f thofe trees Handing. Pafs I
under fome great precipices of limeftone, mixed with marble : from I
hence a moft tremendous view o f mountains o f ftupendous height,. I
and generally o f conoid forms. I never faw a country that feemed to 1
have been fo torn andconvulled : the lhock, whenever it happened, I
ihook off all that vegetates : among thefe afpiring heaps of barren* I
nefs,
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