“T792. a voyage to the Hebrides. “rag 
doubted but agriculture, manufactures, andififheries,. 
would soon enrich that country, and greatly improve 
the circumstances of the people. 
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N. B. At Benbecula, Clanranald, though himself 
@ protestant, is very attentive towards the inhabi- 
tants of this island, who are all Roman catholics, in. 
\ finding a place of worfhip, and doing acts af kindnefs, 
to the priests of their persuasion. 
At Lochfhipford. Visited a fheeling near this 
‘port. Found it a temporary hut, the walls of mud, 
/ about four feet high, the roof of turf. Crawled on all 
fours in at the ‘door, which might be a hole about 
' three feet and a half, but no wooden decor, or any 
means of fhutting it. The inside divided into two 
~ apartments, by a blanket hung acrofs; a bank of 
earth formed a bench in the outward apartment. 
Were received here by its female inhabitant, the wife 
ofa neighbouring tacksman. This lady had been 
educated in France ; and had the manners and addrefs. 
' of persons of rank of that country ; was well drefsed,. 
_chearful, spoke-Englith well, and treated the com- 
! pany to some new milk, served in vefsels perfectly 
clean and neat. In asmall hut adjoining was a come- 
ty young woman, her daughter, busily employed at 
‘her spinning wheel. When harvest approaches. the: 
family return to their farm, with their cattle and 
produce of the dairy. The hufband, a venerable old. 
man, attended the party to their vefsels with great 
eivility.—Much struck with the contrast between. 
~ the hut and its imhabitants.. 
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