124. & voyage to the Hebrides. May 30x. 
in all, Ulapole was the best herring station in the: 
west ; and that the best cod. and ling fifheries might 
be carried on from Loch: Gareloch, Loch Ewe, and: 
Loch Invar. The same persons affirmed, from. 
their knowledge of the country, that some consider= 
able people might, perhaps, build houses for them-= 
selves ; yet the poverty of the generality of them 
made that impofgsible; so that unlefs the. society 
built houses, and let them to the people, it must ex-. 
pect its towns to he for a long time very thinly: 
inhabited: 
Took leave of Seaforth, who had obligingly ac- 
companied ys to Lochend, and returned to the. rest of_ 
™the committee.. 
Here ends the maritime part of the journal any- 
way connected) with. the objects. of the fithery so- 
ciety.. 
Should the funds of this. society ever: increase to. 
the original expectations of its friends, and continue- 
_ under. the same intelligent and disinterested direction,, 
till it has increased the number. of. their settlements 
up to what the. state of‘the country and its fifheries. 
require ; and fhould the government. make good roads. 
of communication through the Highlands, and to the 
_ western fhores ; above all, thould parliament revise 
its maritime laws, and facilitate the communication, 
between the Hebrides and the main land, by putting. 
boats, going between them, on the same footing .as 
boat nayigations in the frith of Forth, or the Thames ;. 
and were the proprietors. of land to. remove the feu- 
dal remains of the subserviency of: the industrious 
arder of inhabitants to their superiors; it cannot be 
