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„efs thefugar-loaf hill of Suil-ihein made a confpicuous figure: at
their feet, the blacknefs o f the moors by no means afiifted to chear
our ideas. Enter A s s y n t , in
S u t h e r l a n d :
Ride by Loch-Cctwloch \ enjoy iotne diveriity of the Icene, for it was
prettily decorated with little wooded iilands. Reach Led-beg, where
j ffe obtained quarters, and rough hofpitality.
This country is environed with mountains ; and all the ilrata near
their bafe, and in the bottoms,, are compofed o f white marble, fine
as the Parian : houfes are built with it, and walls raifed ; burnt it is
the manure of the country ; but oftener nature diffolves, and pre-
fents it ready prepared to the lazy farmer.
This traft feems the refidence of doth ; the people almoil torpid
with idlenefs,. and moil wretched : their hovels moil miferable,
m a d e o f p o le s wattled and covered with thin fods. There is not
torn raifed fufficient to fupply half the Wants of the inhabitants :
climate confpires with, indolence to make matters worfe; yet there
is much improveable land here in a ilate o f nature . but till
famine pinches they will not beilir themfelves : they are content
with little at prefemy and are thoughtlefs o f futurity; perhaps
on the motive of ?urkifi> vaffals,. who are oppreffed in proportion
to their improvements. Difpirited and driven to deipair by bad
management,, crowds were now palling, emaciated with hunger, to
the Eailern coaft, on the report of a Ihip being there loaden
with meal. Numbers of the miferables of this country were now
migrating': they wandered in a Hate of defperation; too poor to
pay>
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