T h o u , Paflenger, who ihalt have fo much time,
A s view my grave, and aik what was my crime :
No itain o f error, no black vices* brand,
D id me compel to leave my native land.
Love to my country, truth condemn’d to die,
D id force my hands forgotten arms to try.
More from friends* fraud my fall proceeded hath,
Th an foes, tho* thrice they did attempt my death.
On my delign tho* Providence did frown,
Y e t G o d at lait will iurely raile his own.
Another hand, with more fuccefsful fpeed,
Shall raife the remnant, bruife the ferpent’s head.
The fine woods and cafcades at Efachojen, mull: not pafs unnoticed
; nor the fertile tradt of corn-land between it and the fea;
nor the deer-park called Beauchamp, with its romantic glen; nor
the lake Du-lo'ch, near the foot of Glenjhiera, a' freih water, communicating
with Loch-fine, which receives into it falmon, fea-trout,
flounders, and even "herrings, fo that the family, during the feafons,
find it a never-failing refervoir of fiih.
The T unny * frequents this and feveral other branches of the
fea, on the weftern coaft during the feafon of herrings, which they
purfue : the Scotch call it the Mackrel-fiure, or Star, from its enormous
fize, it being the largeft of the genus. One, that was taken
off Inveraray, when I was there in 1769, weighed between four
and five hundred pounds. Thefe fiih are taken by a hook, baited
-with a herring; and notwithftanding their vaft bulk, foon lofe their
fpirit, and tamely fubmit to their fate. Their capture is not
* S r . Zool. III. 223. I V . tab. 43.]
attended
attended to as much as it merits; for they would prove a cheap
and wholefome food to the poor. The few that are caught are cut
-in pieces, and either fold freih, or falted in cafks. T u n n ies are
she great fupport of the convents in the countries that bound the
|Mediterranean fea, where they fwarm at ftated feafons, particularly
beneath the great promontories of Sicily, the Lhumofcopia * of the
antients, becaufe watchmen were placed on them to obferve the
motions of the T unnies, and,, give fignals o f their approach to the
fifherraen. In Scotland they a r r iv e only in fmall herds of five or
fix, are difcovered by their playing near the furface, and by their
■agility and frequent leaps out of the water.
In the midft of the duke’s eftate, not far from the caftle, is a
trait of about a hundred a year value, the property of the Earl
of Breadalbane; a gift of a chieftain of this houfe to an anceftor
of his lordihip, in order to maintain the vaft train of followers
jthat attended on the Great in feudal days fo that, whenever the
owner of Laymouth payed his refpeits to his lord in Inveraray,
the fuite might be properly accommodated; the difficulty of fup-
plying fo vaft an addition to the family with forage might be
obviated ; and quarrels prevented between two fuch little armies of
retainers.
Return north; and reach Cladich, a village on the banks of
JLoch-aw, -fo' named from Evak, heirefs of the country about the
year 1066, when the name was firlt changed from that of
Loch-cruachan. I have here the pleafure of meeting Mr.
¡Mac-intype, minifter of Clachan-difart, in the beautiful vale of
A u g . 15.
# Strabo, lib. v. Oppiati'. Halieut. lib. iii. 638.
C Glenurchie.