P92 a voyage to the Hebrides. 5f 
‘The inscription over the door of the house, engra~ 
ved by order of the poet, is as follows : 
Divino munere Gulielmus 
Drummondus Johannis, 
Equitis aurati filius 
ut honesto otio qui- 
esceret sibi et succef- 
soribus instauravit. 
Anno 1638. 
A VOYAGE TO THE HEBRIDES. 
Continued from vol, vill. p. 286. 
Ile of Herries, Loch Tarbet. 
Tuts loch is now swarming with herrings, which, 
for want of salt, the people are prevented from catch- 
ing to the extent they might do; or indeed beyond 
their own limited consumption. They dry them 
without salt in their barns, which are of wicker, and 
eat them in winter by the name of sour herrings: : A 
harfher name would be bestowed upon them any 
where else. At Scalpa is constructing, under the di- 
rection also of captain Macleod, one of the new light- 
houses, which all allow to be judiciously placed, pro- 
mising great advantage to the navigation of the 
Minche, through which all vefsels from the south- 
ward pafs from Liverpool, Bristol, and Glasgow, in 
their diract course to Norway and the Baltic. 
_ A very obvious remark occurs to every visitor of 
the Hebrides, vz. that fith might be furnifhed cheaper 
to Great Britain and the rest of the world, from hence, 
than almost from any other place ; for here, fifth come 
to the very doors of the fithers. At Fort William, sixty 
or seventy boats are sometimes seen in an evening, 
