B7O2. @ voyage to the Hebrides. 9 
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A VOYAGE TO THE HEBRIDES. 
Continued from p. $7. 
Jory 22. Slept on board and sailed in the the mor- 
ning through the sound of Scalpa,—becalmed within 
eight leagues of Stornaway ;—visited in Seaforth’s boat 
Loch Shell, a beautiful small sea loch in Lewes, 
svith good jand around it ;—a good station for a fith- 
ery; took some large sythe, called lord-fifh, as big 
as salmon; the bait cuttle-fifh, at which the sythe 
were seen to dart voraciously ten or twelve fathoms 
deep in the sea. Slept at sea. 
July 23. Reached Stornaway by ten o’clock in the 
wmorning. This harbour is very fine and spacious, 
inclosed within a safe bay, reaching a mile or two 
within the land. A good many trading vefsels 
at anchor off the town. Landed at a commo- 
very circumstances tnat tend to inspire the mind with energetic ardour, 
have as necefsary a tendency to engender vice. The prospect of wealth 
and independence inspire energy, though pofsefsion of these, alas! but 
too often corrupt the heart. To collect young people together, at an early 
period of life, to afsist in the lighter operations of manufactures, frees their 
parents of a burden which tends to promote this prosperity; but in these 
circumstances one vicious person, like a little leaven in the dough, con- 
taminates the whole mafs. Perhaps it is impofsible in these circum- 
‘stances to expect to preserve that singlenefs of heart, that innocence, that 
purity of manners, which bas so long been characteristic of the lower ranks 
-of people in Scotland. While they were bred up in the solitary retreats 
-of a country retirement, they were poor, but virtuous. They willnow, 
it is to be feared, become rich, or at least debauched and victous. It 
would be a happy discovery if a plan could be devised for uniting the 
*blefeings of wealth and industry, with the virtues of poverty ; but this, i 
fear, can only be expected in the kingdom of U ropa. Edict 
YOL. ix. M. t 
