g0 a voyage to the Hebrides. May 23¢. 
dious quay, guns firing, colours displayed, with all 
the honours the proprietor could confer on the com- 
mittee. The town well laid out and clean. There 
are about fifty houses with blue slate roofs, and ma- 
ny other good houses, though not quite so elegantly 
built and covered. The part occupied by the fifhers, 
who are numercus and industrious, is about a quarter 
of a mile up in the country, behind the town, and, 
with the town, contains nearly 2000 inhabitants. It 
has a custom-house and post office ; a packet sails to 
-the main land and returns once a fortnight. Pooleu 
on the main land, is the place to which it conveys paf- 
sengers, goods, and letters, This may be about 
forty miles north and west from Invernefs. A small 
brook runs on the west side of the town, supplying 
the inhabitants with water, its banks form a good 
walhing ground, and separates the town from the 
fields belonging to Seaforth lodge, where the com- 
pany were, during their stay, magnificently enter- 
tained by its proprietor. 
Nothing can surpafs the beauty of the situation of 
this lodge. It is placed on an eminence fronting 
‘south, from whence it commands a fine prospect of the 
bay, fhipping, harbour, and town. It is surrounded 
by some well cultivated fields of rich grafs and corn. 
Round the town, to a certain extent, the country is 
also well cultivated, and wears a very smiling ap- 
pearance. Seaforth has laid out several new streets, 
and encourages new settlers both in town and country. 
The lots for houses are about goo square yards, 
fifteen in front, and sixty deep; feu duty 16.s. 8 d. 
yearly. New settlers in the country have some acres 
