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should be entitled by their acts in the premises to bind the 

 mmor or trustee, and all successors to the estate. 

 A true copy from the record. 



(Signed) Lewis Gordon, dep. sec^ 



Highland Society Hill, 

 Edinburgh, Dec. 10, 1802. 



Highland Society Hall, Edinburgh, Dec. 23, 1802. 

 Minute of the Committee of the Directors of the Highland 

 . Society of Scotland, which formerly drew up Answers, 

 in the Shape of a Report, to the Queries of Mr. Teltord, 

 Eno-ineer, respecting the opening ot Communications by 

 Roads and Bridges in the Highlands, and by a Canal trom 

 Inverness to Fort William, upon considering a Letter 

 from Mr. Telford, of date 14th December 1802, to Henry 

 Mackenzie, Esq. one of the Society's Directors, owning 

 Receipt of said Report, which he states to be able, full, 

 and satisfactory, and that the " only Instance m vvjich 

 it is rather less explicit tlwn he could wish, is with re- 

 spect to the Road in the Middle Division, which should 

 connect the Inverness and Fort William Road with Skye, 

 &c. &c." as to which Mr. Telford wishes the Committee 

 could say something more specific, and recommends their 

 taking any Information which can be furnished by Mr, 

 Donaldson, Surveyor of Military Roads, upon that Point: 

 the Right Honourable Lord Macdonald, one of the Vice- 

 Presidents in Otfice, in the Chair. 



The committee, in their former report, have pointed out 

 the great objects to which roads through the district m ques- 

 tion should in their opinion apply; but there being a dif- 

 ference of opinion as to the precise lines of road by which 

 those objects would best be attained, the committee do not 

 feel themselves at liberty to specify those precise lines. 

 They would take the liberty of suggesting the expediency of 

 government employing some able surveyor or engineer of 

 respectable character and abilities to report on the subject ; 

 and if, relative to tiie present point of inquiry', they are to 

 say any thing more particular, they may mention that the 

 objects of this line of intersection seem chiefly twofold, viz. 

 to afford a communication to the head ot Loch Hourn, a 

 very valuable fishing loch, and also to Bernera, the nearest 

 point to Skye; both which thev appreliend may be attained 

 (jy two ramifications of a road from the military road leading 

 irom Fort WilUam to Inverness. 



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