D a l sh i a n .
MOULINÉ.
had his houfe free, and two pecks of meal, and a certain fee, I
for every difcharge of his office.
Defcend, and am ferried over the T'umel: reach the great road I
to Blair, and turning to the left, reach Daljhian; where, on I
the fummit of a little hill, in an area of a hundred and fixtyl
feet diameter, is the ruin of St. Catherine's chapel: on the acceffiblel
fide of the hill is a ditch of great depth. This place feems to havel
been an antient Britijh poft; and that in after-times the founder
of this chapel might prefer the fituation on account of the fecu-l
rity it might afford to the devotees, in a barbarous age. There
are in other parts of this parifh remains of chapels, and other I
religious foundations, as at Killichaffie, Tillipurie, Chapeltown, and
Pilgir; and at Killicbange, may be feen a ruin, furrounded with
woods, with the rolling waters of the Tumel adding folemnity to
the fituation.
Enter the parifh of Mouline, Ma-oline, or the little lake, from the
wet fituation of part: that called the Hollow of Mouline is the moll
fertile. The parifh contains about two thoufand five hundred
fouls. Their manufaftures, and thofe of Logieriat, are the
fame : in both great quantities of flax being fpun into yarn ; and
much flax imported from Holland and the Baltic for that pur-
pofe, befides what is raifed in the country. Notwithftanding the
apparent fertility of thefe vales, the produce of oats, bear, and
potatoes, is not equal to the confumption 5 but quantities of meal
are imported. Barley bread is much ufed in thefe parts, and
efteemed to be very wholefome.
To the honor of the landlords of all the tradts I paired over
fince my landing, none of the tenants have migrated. They are
encouraged
encouraged in manufadtures and rural ceconomy. The ladies promote
the article of cleanlinefs among the lower order of females
by little pramia: for example, the Duchefs of Athol rewards
with finart hats the lalfes who appear neateft in thofe parts,
where her Grace’s influence extends.
| In this parifh are conliderable natural woods of oak : they
are cut down once in twenty years for the fake of the bark,
which is here an important article of commerce. The timber
fells at little or no price, being too fmall for ufe.
£ The common difeafes of this country (I may fay of the High- D isease s of t h e
lands in general) are fevers and colds. The putrid fever makes H ig h l a n d s .
ji;reat ravages. Among the nova cohors febrium which have vifited
the earth, the ague was till of late a ftranger here. The Glacach,
or, as it is fometimes called, the Mac-donalds diforder, is not uncommon.
The afflidted finds a tightnefs and fulnefs in his cheft, as
is' frequent in the beginning of confumptions. A family of the
name of Macdonald, an hereditary race of Machaons, pretend to
the cure by glacach, or handling of the part affedted, in the fame
manner as the Irijh l\lr, Greatrack, in the laft century, cured by
flroking. The Macdonalds touch the part, and mutter certain
charms; but, to their credit, never accept a fee on any entreaty.
^Common colds are cured by Brochan, or water gruel, fweetened T h e ir c u r e s .
faith honey; or by a dofe of butter and honey melted in fpirits,
and adminiftered as hot as poffible.
|As I am on this fubjedt, I fhall in this place continue the lift
of natural remedies, which were found efficacious before they
began to
Fee the Doftor for his naufeous draught.
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