Memorandum of the minerals found in Scotland by Colonel " M
wick. i. A filver-mine on the north fide of the hill S. Jordin in thefl
parifh of Foveran. 2. Gold found about Brnidur beyond Aberdemm
3. Silver called golden bank, at Menzi'es■, in the pariih of Foverm.1
4. Silver, at the back of a park, where there is a-well, that ferves DifM
Hair's houihold, pariih of Fintra, eight miles-- north by AberdnnM
5. Gold in the boggs of new Lejlie, at Brumgarran, two miles from«
Bunidur. 6. Iron at the well of Sipa,. weft fide of Woman hill, near!
Gilkomftone miln, quarter of a mile from Aberdeen. 7. Gold, very I
rich, in a town called Overhill, pariih Bechelvie, belongs to L .l
Glames, fourteen fathoms below the kiln. 8. Lead, at the head off!
Loughlieburn, north fide of Selkirk. 9. Copper, in a place called £/-■
phon, in a hill befide Allen Laird of Hilltown's lands. 10. Silver,«
in the hill of Shrill, Galloway, ir . Silver, in Windyncil, JweedaltM
12. Gold, in Glenclought, near Kirkhill. 13. Copper, in Locklaw, FiftM
14. Silver, in the hill fouth fide Lochenhill. 15. Lead, in L. BriM
tiierftone s land. 16. Several metals near Kirkcudbright. 17. Copper,«
north fide Borthwickhill, Hawick, and Branxome. 18. Silver, in i|
Kylefmoor, Sorn, and MacMintAirjhire. 19. Several o'res in Ortey.
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N U M B E R XI.
A DISSERTATION on the GOV ERNMENT
of the PEOPLE in the WE STERN ISLES..
.Written November 17th, 1774,
By the Rev. Mr. D o n a l d M a c q u e e n , of Kilmuir, in the Iile of Skie.
P a r t I. p . 312.
THE diftance of thefe ifles from the centre of the ftate, fecured
as they were from the awe of fupreme power, by high mountains,
exteufive moors, and impetuous feas, while their fovereigns
were employed in quelling more dangerous infurre&ions at home, or
in repelling the frequent incurfions of their fouthern neighbours,
•left them in a kind of independency on the crown of Scotland, efper
cially while, for fome centuries, they continued to be governed by
Norwegian viceroys, who coming from a wild and barbarous country,
cannot be expefted to have brought order or civilization along with
them ■, nor was the matter much mended when Somerlade, the famous
Thane of Argyle, upon being married to a daughter of Olave, depute
King of Man, got a footing in the ifles, all of which to the north of
thtMull of Kintire, together with Kintire itfelf, he poflefled by himfelf
or his defcendants, or thofe having right from them, until about the
beginning of the 15th century. All this while whatever reformation
was made in the heart of the kingdom on the manners and preju-
H h h 2 dices