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to their people; a falfe policy! as it would enrich both parties J
and make the landlord more refpeflable, as mailer o f a fet of
decent tenants, than of thoufands. of bare-footed • half-ilarved
vaffals. A t prefent adventurers from diftant parts take the employ
from the natives : a town would create a market; a market
would foon occafion a concourfe of (hipping,, who would then,
arrive with- a certainty of a cargo ready taken for them ; and the
mutual wants of itranger and native would be fupplied at, an eafy
rate.
By example of a gentleman or two, fome few improvements in
farming appear. Lime is burnt: iea-tang ufcd as manure: and J
Ihell fand imported by fuch who can afford the freight. But the
beft trade at prefent is cattle : about five hundred are annually fold I
out of this pariih, from the price of one pound feven to two pounds ]
five a-piece. About eighty horfes, at three pounds each, and a. I
hundred and fifty fheep at. three pounds per fcore. The cattle are j
blooded at fpring and fa ll: the blood, is preferved to be eaten, I
cold.
We found our veflel fafely. arrived at anchor with many others,, I
under the fhelter o f a little ifle, on the fouth fide of the bay. I
Weigh, and get under fail with a good breeze. Pafs by the mouth. I
of Loch-Lorridon; a few leagues farther by Apple-croft bay, fmall,, I
with populous and well cultivated ihores. The back ground mod I
uncommonly mountainous.
Apple-crofs houfe is inhabited by, a moil hofpitable gentleman I
as fame reports: we lamented therefore our inability to pay our I
refpedts.
On the right leave the iiles of Rma and Rafa and Scaipagbefore, \
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us is Croulin, and beyond foar the vail hills o f Skie, Sail cloie
under Croulin inhabited by two families : producing a little corn
and a few cattle. Almolt oppofite to its fouthern end is tlje common
entrance into the two great lochs, Kifterne and Canon.
Pafs tire found between Skie and Kintail; anchor about nine
o’clock, and once more ileep beneath Mac-kinnon’s caflle.
In failing down the bay, had to the north eail a full view of
Kintail in
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the original feat o f the Mac-Kenzies, or rather Mac-Kenneths * , a
patronymic from their great anceitor Kenneth, fon of Colin Fitzgerald,
of the houfe of Defmond in Ireland. To him Alexander III. made
a grant of thefe lands for his good fervices at the battle of Largs.
His poilerity, a warlike race, filled all the lands ; for the heroes of
* Thefe were the chief gentlemen, in 1603, în the iheriffdom o f Imitrmfi,
which at that time included the fliire of that name, Roß, Stratbnavmt, Cathncfs,
Sutherland, and the Northern Hebrides
L. of F ovules,
Sherrife of Cromartit
Dumbeith,
Forfe,
Qtanfceale,
Mac lye,
Neil Hutcbefoun, in Ajferit,
Machnto/che, captain o f the
Clanchaniroun,
L. of Glene*wes,
Jlaynold Mac-raynold, o f
Keppache•
D d d 2 N o r th -
Macloyd, of Lewis,
Macloyd, of Harries,
Donald Gorme/oun,
Macneil, o f Bar ray,
Mulcalloun, o f Rofay,
John Mudzart, captain of
the Clanrannalts, -
The Laird of Glengarry,
The L. of Kneydart,
Mac-kenzie,
L. o f Garloche,
Hi. of Balnagowne,
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