iiager is laid to have made a large fortune $
but this may be a popular flory. It is
certain, that gold medals were ftruck from
the produce, when Charles I. was crowned
at Edinburgh.
The miners at Lead Hills are men of good
morals, and excellent members of fociety.
They have a pretty large circulating library,
which they founded for their own
amufement and inftrucHon. The agents
are men of fcience, who exert themfelves
to promote induftry and happinefs.
Erom Lead Hills I palled 50 miles to
Glalgow, where there is plenty of coal
found in the neighbourhood. Hence to
Tyndrum, where there were confiderable
lead mines that produced vaft quantities of
lead ore, with a variety of other mineral fub-
fiances, and ufed to employ a great many
people. The veins are in a mountain of
granite j;
granite; but the operations have ceafed
for fome time.
From Tyndrum I went to Strontian,
about 70 miles, over the black mountains,
the Devil’s ftaircafe, and the grand Glen Co*
where there are many curious porphyries,
and granites, and their varieties.
Near Ballyhulilh is the larged and bed
date quarry I ever faw, in a mountain
of micaceous fhiftus, with a feam of lime-
hone in the vicinity. Thefe dates form a
confiderable article of export, the limeftone
is burnt; but coal is fo dear that the advantage
cannot be general.
Strontian is fituated in a fine valley, near
the bottom of Loch Sunart. The mines
are in the mountains, at the upper end
of the vale, the rock being red granite ;
but the neighbourhood contains many va-
* Glen Co, near Loch Lung, contains micaceous Ihiftus.
rieties